Christi

Got up this morning and did a fartlek type run. Wanted to do something moderately hard because I need to do my long run this week on Wednesday and I want to be somewhat rested. I did 10, 5,3,1 minutes hard. 3 minute jog, 1:30 jog, 1:00 jog in between. Most all of these were downhill. Paces were 6:05 for 10 minutes, 5:56 for 5 minutes, 5:45 for 3 minutes and 5:31 for 1 minute. (Recovery pace between 7:30-8:30. Felt good today. Much better than Friday! Also did 3x400m hills. (Very steep) finished up with 1.5 on treadmill to make 9.

Ran 20 this morning and felt sooooo much better than my last long run. I'll be honest-I was nervous about this one because the last one was so bad. Focused on slowing my pace down a bit and tried to stay relaxed. Overall average pace was 7:16. (First half 7:26 ap, last half 7:08) stopped twice, potty break and water break.

4.5 ez

Ran two miles today with a 5th grader at ladera elementary. They were doing their annual school two mile race and I got asked by his mom to run with him. He wanted to win-but ended up placing 2nd. This race was an out and back course and he did really well. His time was 13:30 for two miles. Not too shabby for a 5th grader!!!

Ran the ship rock relay marathon this morning. Our team had 5 runners each running 5miles except for leg 5 which ran 6.2 miles. I ran leg 4 which was either gradual uphill or downhill the whole time.(nothing steep-but not completely flat either) my splits were 6:06 (slight down) 6:11 (slight down) 6:49 (uphill) 6:19 (slight up) 6:03 (flat). .05 in 17 seconds. Overall average pace was 6:17. I was hoping for my pace to be around 6:10-6:15 but I still Felt pretty good about this one.. I was mostly running by myself the whole time. A team of running men all dressed the same passed me going really fast and during my run I passed 2 or 3 of them. Our team was 1st relay team overall-so that was exciting. We ran 2:49 for our overall time. Got some pottery for winning. Fun race today!