Easy run. Average pace: 9:12. 7 am, 54° F, 33% humidity, wind 6 S, overcast. My kids are off school again today because the teachers have a professional development day. So I took this opportunity to sleep in and run a little later. I felt pretty good on my run and got going at a fairly decent pace. It turns out that Midnight Trail to Georgia has a good beat and eight notes make a good running tempo. That song was responsible for my fast 6th mile. Splits for the first 6.5 miles were 9:56, 9:09, 9:31, 9:13, 9:06, 8:27, and a half mile at 9:10 pace.
I ran for an hour, which gave me 6.5 miles, but when I got home I asked my 12 year old son if he wanted to run a mile. He's been wanting to start running, but it's been hard to find a time that we can run together because he doesn't want to do it in the mornings and evenings are too busy. So I went out for another mile with him. I tried to let him set the pace and he started out kind of fast. I told him I thought it was a little too fast, but he thought he could do it. He did slow down over the course of the mile, but still we ran the mile in 9 minutes. As we we approaching the end of the mile, I told him that we wouldn't make it quite home before the mile ended, and that we could either stop and walk after we completed the mile or keep running until we got home and he wanted to stop and walk. I got an email yesterday about the Colder Boulder 5K on December 5. They put you in waves based on your finish time in the previous Bolder Boulder and they they consider each wave a separate race and award three finishers in each wave. I'm irritated by all these hilly 5Ks out here in Highlands Ranch and I haven't been able to run one of them at as fast a pace as I ran the Bolder Boulder this year, so I'm thinking that maybe I could get a good time in the Colder Boulder. Also, each finisher gets a Chic-Fil-A chicken biscuit and a Headsweats Alpine Reversibe Beanie. I'm really tempted to do this race, even though it's 9 days after the Turkey Day 5K I'm signed up for and it's a hassle to get to Boulder. Maybe I'll run the Turkey Trot with my son and then race the Colder Boulder. I'll have to think about it. Also, for those of you who are considering the Canyonlands Half Marathon in March, they have now announced that registration for the lottery will run from November 25 to December 10, so put that on your calendars.
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