The Next Step

Nice day today with some light rain.  I felt good today.  Started off easy and picked up the pace as I went along.  Ended up running the last couple of miles around MP.  It was good to get the legs moving at a faster pace. I need to start working more speed into my runs.

38:33 (7:42 avg) 

Nice day today. Temp around 60 and light wind.  I felt ok today but was a little sluggish.  Just getting in the miles.

63:53 (7:59 avg) 

Beautiful morning today with temp in low 50's and light wind.  I planned to do 3 mile tempo today.  This is the first one I have done in awhile so trying to get started on some real training.  I didn't feel great this morning.  I was sluggish and the legs felt dead starting out.  I ran 2 miles to warm up but still didn't feel much zip in the legs when I started the tempo.  The first mile was a struggle just trying to get going.  Started picking up some on the second mile and felt better as I went along.  Stayed around the same pace for the 3rd mile.  Not too bad for the first tempo in awhile on tired legs.  Feels good to get some speed back into my running.  Interested to see how quickly I can get back to a respectable pace.  Tempo miles were: 7:09, 6:53, 6:52 

45:43 (7:37 avg) 

Another great morning.  Temp in low 50's no wind.  I was still a little sluggish this morning. Had a hard time getting going.  Felt a little better later in the run but still dragging some.  I assume it is my body trying to get used to the higher mileage.  Getting close to normal mileage so feels good.

65:56 (8:15 avg) 

Nice morning today.  Temp around 60 with some light wind.  I am running a half marathon tomorrow so just did an easy run today.  I don't have high expectations for the half.  I don't have much of a endurance base built up and have not done any speedwork so just going to have fun doing it.  Hopefully, it will get the competitive feelings going again and movitate my to pick it up some more.

32:33 (8:08 avg) 

Pretty nice day for the race.  Temp was around 60 it was cloudy but pretty windy.  I didn't have the best preparation for this race so not very high expectations going into the race.  Was out late last night and then had a hard time going to sleep but was glad to get out and race again.  Since I haven't ran a race in awhile I didn't have a qualification time so I ended up back in corral F.  It was very tough at the start because I was having to go back and forth to get around people.  I probably did this for the first 4 miles.  After that the spacing got a little better and I was able to pick up the pace.  I felt good most of the way and picked up the pace as I went along.  The time was not very good but based on my lack of training it is something to build on.  It does get me excited to start pushing harder and increase my training to get back to where I was before.  Here are the splits from the Garmin.  They don't line up with the mile markers (especially since I had to move around so much passing people) but give a good overview of my race progression.

1st - 7:40

2nd - 7:46

3rd - 7:40

4th - 7:21

5th - 7:27

6th - 7:17

7th - 7:19

8th - 7:06

9th - 7:06

10th - 7:00

11th - 7:02

12th - 7:03

13th - 7:02