8.78 miles @ 7:40 average. 77° , 93% humidity
Thursday morning "race to the weekend" with the Striders. Informal get together put together by David meeting at the Longleaf pool area. New start time is 5:30 (5:25 meet up). Guys were vastly outnumbered this morning. We all started out together. It was a slightly faster starting out pace for me but not too fast. Andrea and Casi however had a different "easy" pace and they soon put a big gap between themselves and the rest of the group. They have no problem getting onto a faster pace right away. David, Keisha, and I were out on the Starkey Blvd. bike path and Alex caught up to us. We made it to the bridge, which was the turnaround point for 6 miles. I was planning on doing 8 but decided to turn around and do my miles back in the neighborhood. Decided to pick up the pace. Keisha caught up with me and we ran the 2.5 miles back at a mid 7:30ish pace. Back to my truck to grab my drink bottle. My garmin said 6.17 miles. As I was grabbing my bottle, Andrea and Casi were just finishing up 7 miles! I ran out another 2.5 miles and held onto just under a 6:50 pace, then cooled down about another tenth of a mile, followed by some walking. Headed back home after some quick socializing, then started on my second Inflict workout for the week. I liked this workout because it had a good mix of exercises. My favorite one was the push-up pull-up combo which consists of 2 push-ups, 2 pull-ups, repeat 10 times. The tendon in my right arm which has been bothering me since January is finally starting to get better as I was able to do just about every exercise (except had to go light on bicep curls).
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