I ran one mile with Holly in the dark this morning. It was GUSTY! The kind of wind that blows you all over the road! The kind that reminds me of the Wizard of OZ! But despite that, Holly set a record for her fastest mile by almost a minute, so I am super proud of her.
Then I ran my son to school, followed immediately by a tempo mile with the double jogging stroller. I counted it as a tempo mile because I had this crazy notion to break my record for the fastest mile with the double stroller. I'll have to check, but I think I did it. My time was 9:57, and I was breathing HARD. (I just checked, and my previous record with the stroller had been 10:50. Yea!) It was still kind of windy, and I had to finish uphill and into the wind. Felt like I was sprinting--but only going 9:30 pace at the end.
My boys were sick of being in the stroller, so they sat on the curb and watched me finish the distance by doing laps in the cul de sac about 1,000 times. One lap is .04 of a mile. I did half a mile that way--at 8:45 pace mostly. I hadn't intended to do it that fast, but it just seemed so easy after running with that honkin' stroller!
1.3 miles later picking up my son from school. | 