The Next Step

It was warm (72) and humid today. I was tired this morning after the trip back.  Still have some jet lag.  After a few miles felt better and turned out being a nice run.  

64:02 (8:00 avg) 

Huntsville, AL: Warm (72) and very humid.  Today I planned to do 4 x 1200 at around 6:10 pace.  I was still a little tired from the last trip but started off with a 2 mile warm up.  I did the 4 x 1200 with 400 job in between.  I did these on the road so the first one I was off on my pace but felt pretty good.  Picked it up on the second one and felt good.  Started to feel the effort on the 3rd and had to push it.  The last one I was really feeling it.  Felt like stopping to pushed through to get it in.  The pace slowed but was glad to get them done.  Here are the splits (4:44, 4:34, 4:32, 4:39).

Huntsville, AL: Warm and humid again this morning.  Had some early meetings so did a short run today.  Felt good today after yesterday's workout.

48:31 (8:05 avg) 

Huntsville, AL: Was cloudy and just finished raining so a little cooler today.  Just nice easy run.  Felt good today.

57:26 (8:12 avg) 

Have a crazy busy day today so just got in a quick run.  Glad to get in a few miles.  I am trying to make sure that I at least get some running in 6 days a week.  Felt good today even though it is was hot and humid.

39:45 (7:57 avg) 

I didn't plan on running this but saw it advertised yesterday and thought I would make a decision when I woke up today.  It was a nice morning and the family was sleeping in so decided to give it a go.  I was in a wedding last night so was on my feet alot plus didn't get to sleep until late so thought of this more like a workout.  It was a really small race (maybe 50 runners).  There some some young HS runners who went out hard and a few others that followed them.  I was in about 10th place the first mile but then started to pick off people as they slowed.  First mile was 6:20.  Started felling better the 2nd mile and moved up into 4th where I stayed the rest of the way.  2nd mile was 6:15.  Was feeling the effort on the 3rd mile and as we were coming back one of the volunteer's sent us the wrong way so ended up making the course about a 1/4 mile short.  Held my pace pretty good to the finish.  The 3rd mile avg pace was 6:18.  So avg for the distance ran was 6:17.  I figure I could have easily avg 6:19 for the 5k so that would have been a 19:37.  I was hoping to break 20 so was disappointed that I didn't get to run the whole distance to see.  Still it was a good workout and gives me something to gauge my fitness off of.  Would like to do a couple more 5k this summer just to see how my fitness is progressing and work on my speed.  Would like to get down under 19:00 by the fall.