I ran 9 miles this morning in 1:09:21 (33:56 first half, 35:25 second half). I started off the run really slowly, and I hit my 2 mile mark in about 17:00. Just before I hit this mark I saw another guy out running and I sped up in order to catch up to him. Just before I caught up to him he noticed that I was coming, and he sped up as well, so I didn't really slow down after catching him. It ends up that it was one of the Iowa State runners out on a morning run. I met him once while running last year (November maybe?), and he guessed correctly who I was, simply because he couldn't imagine anyone else running him down from behind. I ended up running with him for about 2 miles (about 6:30-6:40 pace average) before he turned off to head back to campus. I then slowed back down again, and finished the run on my own.
At school I helped out Liz collect some pilot data for her research, and I ended up running about 4 more miles while helping her. I ran a short warm-up, and then ran just over a mile while forefoot striking, followed by running just over a mile while heel striking, and finished up by running just over a mile barefoot. I also helped Liz by experimenting running "barefoot" with socks, and running barefoot without socks. I performed all of the running trials on a treadmill, with an accelerometer attached to my right tibia. Essentially, Liz is going to be looking at the data collected to see how randomly the timing of my footfalls is distributed about the mean, and is trying to see if there will be differences depending on footstrike pattern.
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