Getting back to it

Just Jenny and I this morning for a slow run/walk to recover from Sat.

We did one of usual routes in reverse and it was quite a challenge.  It's much more fun to down Nantucket that up it.  We couldn't believe how many cars were on that road at 5:30 in the morning. Mostly high school kids - driving too fast and running stops signs.

Stats: 51:06 / 13:42 avg pace

It was almost all of our running group back together again this morning.  We were so glad to have Leslie back with us.  She did great!!

Stats: 5.35 total miles (lots of cool up and warm down walking today)

1:09 time / 13:58 avg pace

splits:

Mile 1 15:02

Mile 2 12:44

Mile 3 12:34

Mile 4 12:54

Mile 5 16:14

Estimate on the distance - it was raining this morning so we headed for the indoor track at the Rec center.  Not that we're afraid of a little rain - but with TOU next week we don't want to take any chances of injury or sickness.

We were dressed for cold outdoor weather - NOT indoor track weather so I got SO HOT!  Not fun doing the track!  Hopefully that was enough on the track this morning to keep us outside as long as possible.

Good little basic run today.

Just went walking with Jenny and Leslie this morning.  This has become our pre-long run ritual - walk the day before and stretch those muscles.  It was really hard to get up this morning and it was cold - windy cold.  Thank goodness we enjoyed our walk and talk - Leslie told us stories from Tonga and her adventures as a young college student.

What a GREAT run today - good friends, one of my favorite courses, fast time (our best when you compare like runs on other weeks) and breakfast at Mimi's at the end.

Because of not getting in SGM, our training has been cut short 2 weeks - hopefully we'll be okay for TOU.  We've upped our mileage during the week over the last month and gotten in all of the long runs except the 20-22.  So it's going to be a mental battle.

Stats for this run:

8.57 in 1:37:34 (we hit 8 miles at 1:29 and that is 10 minutes faster than our best time on an 8 mile run).  Our avg pace was 11:23 which is a minute faster than our average on other 8 mile runs.  That is very exciting to me.

splits:

1 - 13:45, 2 - 11:19, 3 - 10:33, 4 - 11:04, 5 - 10:38, 6 - 11:23, 7 - 10:56, 8 - 9:50

these are pretty fast splits for us.  The encouraging thing for me is that I felt good at this pace for this distance.  I do wish I could do that the whole marathon but that is just not going to happen.  Maybe in the next few years.