Rollin' THUNDER

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6 miles. Avg pace of 7:08.

7 miles, avg 7:41.

6 miles, avg pace of 7:02.

7 miles, avg pace of 7:10

8 miles. I increased the effort on miles 4 and 7. avg pace was 7:05.

7 miles, avg pace 7:10

7 miles, avg pace 7:08

8 miles. I wasnt concerned about pace, I just wanted to get some time on my feet. Avg pace of 7:26.

7 miles, I used the first 4 as a warm up then gave a little more effort for the last 3. Avereage pace was 6:59

8 miles. I just wanted to run today without worrying about pace, so I tried not to look at my watch the entire run (except at mile 4 and 8 so I knew to turn around and to stop running). I felt like I was going pretty slow and wasnt going to be surprised if I had some miles slower than 8 minutes. I was surprised however that the average pace was 7:22, and my slowest mile was 7:33.

9 miles, avg pace 7:17

8 miles at 5:45 am. avg pace 7:25. Tomorrow I will be sure to take a headlamp. It wasn't impossible to run today without it, but I think I was stepping high because I couldnt see the road for a lot of the run.

I woke up at 5 to do some studying and then I was going o go running at 7. When I woke up there wasan amazing thunder storm. As I was studying the storm seemed to get worse. Finallyit came time for me to get ready to go running and the storm was really bad. Not a lot of rain, but the most lightning and thunder I have ever seen and heard. I didn't want to get hit by lightning so I thought about changing my run to around 1 pm. Then I thought "how often do I get to run in an amazing thnder/lightning storm?" SO I got ready and headed out. It was a good run. I don't know if I was running faster because I was scared of getting hit by ligthning, or if there was just more energy in the air, I didnt go a ton faster, but it was a noticably quicker pace than most of my training runs lately.

I am glad I decided to head out.

Splits: 7:14, 6:59, 7:00 (hill), 6:55, 6:50, 7:04 (hill), 6:40, 6:39

avg pace 6:55

9 miles

I woke up yesterday morning and felt a sharp pain in my right hip with every step or turn I made, so I took the day off from running.

Today I did 9 miles, avg pace 7:06

10 miles, avg pace 7:17. I got a side stich at mile 5, it went away around 5.5 but then came back around 6.5-7. It slowed me down a little, but not too bad.

9 miles, avg pace 6:57

This hasnt been a good week for running (ssecond week of a new semester). Hopefully I can get into a good schedule to get everything done that I need to do and everything I want to.

I was planning on going for an hour. I switched my diet back to what it used to be, and 20 minutes in my stomach was telling me to head for a toilet. So I listened.

avg pace 6:54

10 miles aroung noon.

average pace 7:14

10 miles. avg pace 7:20.

At the end of my run I saw a little fire under a truck in a parking lot. I ran over and was going to try and put it out with my shirt if I could. I got there and saw that the front of the truck was burning as well. A policeman arived seconds later and just watched, which surprised me because I am sure he had a fire extinguisher in his car, and at that point it looked like it could have been put out with a fire extinguisher. A few minutes later a fire truck arrived. I was also surprised by them taking their sweet time to get their hoses out and put out the fire. I know it wasn't an emergency, but still a little gitty-up would have been nice to see. Also a lady was hurrying to try and move her car away from the scene (she was about 20 feet from the truck and probably believes the HOLLYWOOD hype that cars just explode when they are on fire) she thought she was in drive but was in reverse and slammed her car into a truck parked behind her. She pulled forward a little then got out to check the damage, I just looked at her with a "You have got to be kidding me stare". She decided the damage wasnt bad and drove away.

This was a very exciting way to cool down after a run.