Freethinker ~ Freerunner

Ka-Chow!  18 miles at a 7:38 pace.  61 degrees with 90% humidity.

PR run for this distance.  The plan was to run the last ten miles at my goal marathon pace of 7:15.  I fell a little bit short of that (Actual AP 7:17), which I think was mostly because of a few of the hillier miles that slowed me down a bit.

Kevin ran with me from 2 miles in and fell off at about mile 9 when I started to speed up.

My right gluteal felt a little strained from about 8 miles in and seemed to feel a little worse towards the end.  I noticed that it was worse on the down hill sections towards the end of this run.  I will try to massage it out today, because I can still feel it. 

I jumped in an ice bath after the run.  Hopefully that will ease any on coming soreness. 

First 8 miles: AP 8:05

Last 10 miles: AP 7:17

General aerobic run with 10x100 strides at the end.  63 degrees.  Humidity 40%.  8:34 AP. 

I felt surprisingly better on this run than I thought I would considering the marathon pace run on Sunday took quite a toll on my legs.  I was careful to monitor my pace and slow down on the hills.  I felt strong for the 10x100 strides at the end. 

I started running with a heart rate monitor on Sunday.  My average heart rate was 141, which was right where it should be for this type of workout.

Mid week MLR.  65 degrees.  80% humidity.  8:12 AP.  

I tried to keep it nice and easy this morning on the pace.  I felt a little fatigued on the first 3 miles until I got warmed up.  I'm going to go real easy on my recovery run tomorrow.  

The temperature feels like fall.  It was almost felt cold. 

Recovery run.  63 degrees. 80% humidity.  8:53 AP.  

I feel like I'm still recovering from the marathon pace run on Sunday. 

Alisha and I are running a 5k called the Glow Run this Saturday night.  I plan on skipping my usual 5 mile recovery run Saturday morning, and then taking it easy on my long run Sunday morning.  Over 5,000 people have signed up for this race.  It looks like it should be pretty fun.    

Aerobic run this morning.  Nice and easy at an 8:28 AP.  70 degrees, 56% humidity. 

My knees were bothering me a little bit during the day yesterday.  I felt fine this morning, so hopefully it was just minor aches and pains.  

I'll be skipping out on my recovery run tomorrow morning because we will be racing in the Glow Run 5k tomorrow night.  From looking at the pictures of previous races it looks like a really cool event. 

Not yet official, but I think I achieved a new PR tonight!  I clocked my self at 19:32, which beats my previous record of 19:34.  I will update when they post the results.  I believe that I placed 5th overall, but again I anxiously await the results to be posted which are taking quite a while post. 

This was strange race.  It took place at Mohawk Park after dark.  The theme involved all the runners wearing glow sticks, necklaces, bracelets and anything else that glows in the dark.  The course was adorned with glowing objects was well. 

I know I finished very near the lead pack because I kept the pace car in view up until the last K.  I thought I heard a race coordinator shout out 5 to me as I approached the finish line.

UPDATE:  I just got the official results and I placed 5th overall, 2nd in my age group, and recorded a new PR 19:28.85.  There were 4310 total runners.  Feeling great!