Positive Running

On a nice day, I stayed inside and ran on the TM because I'm taking antibiotics for a hand muscle or ligament strain that had become infected (fairly common for diabetics).  So, I ran 10.5 miles in 84-minutes, followed by a 0.2 mile cool-down.  Ran the first two miles in 17:30, then ran the next 8.5 miles in 66:30 (7:49/mile).  Ran six 35-second striders at paces between 6:44 and 6:53/mile.  Main focus this week is to develop muscle tension and regain my speed for a 5k race on Friday night.

Ran 7.3 miles on the TM.  Most of the miles were at 7:53/mile, except for five 50 second striders at a 6:22/mile pace.  Finished with a 0.2 mile cool-down.

Ran 6.3 miles on the TM, mostly at 8:00/mile.  Ran six 0.125 mile (200m) repeats at 5:56 - 6:03/mile.  Finished with a 0.2 mile cool-down.

Ran the MacArhur Park 5k and Corporate Cup at 7:00 p.m. on a nice 74 degree evening with no wind.  Won my age group for the third consecutive year of this race with a 6:45/mile pace.  General Douglas MacArthur grew up in downtown Little Rock and his family's house is now a museum and park in front of the house has his name.  The Corporate Cup is a competition of companies with Arkansas operations, and consists of four runners who each run the 5k for a cumulative total time added from the team's runners.  On our Entergy Arkansas Team, Wesley Hun won the event with a 17:02 time (5:30/mile) and Kerry Gaston won the womens 35-39 division, and Mike Maulden came in second in the men's 55-59 division behind me.

It's taking some time for me to warm-up since I'm not fully recovered from training for and running the Boston Marathon.  So I ran 2.3 miles on the TM as a partial warm-up and then ran another 1.1 miles at MacArthur Park to warm-up.