The Long Run

Beautiful morning, usual slow paced first mile with steady pick up. I a saw a buck this morning but it was dead :( (at least it did not smell yet).  I see a pretty good amount of deer around here from time to time and was just thinking recently that I never see any bucks, maybe I will see a live one next time.

Tuesday morning run at the Y with the Striders. Did some of my warm up with Scott before he took off, I caught up to him a few times while doing my intervals, 4x1K at paces: 5:58,5:57,5:54,5:58

Then did enough cool down so I would get in 8 miles.

Started out with usual route around the neighborhood and then went a little bit extra on the grassy shoulder next to Trinity Blvd. Nice 66 degree weather this morning.

I thought I would try something different today and run with the group that usually starts out too fast for me. It was a good challenge. Ran with Beka, Melanie, Jean, and Jason. One mile warm up at 8:15, then alternated between low 7's and 7:30's until the last fast mile at 6:04, then one cool down mile. Beka was joking around and said how about 6:20 for the last mile, I said ok, she said she was just kidding but would try and keep up. Towards the end I was slowing down a little but Jason snuck up behind me and we pushed it in and Beka ended up right around 6:20, her fastest mile since hurting hurt foot a few months ago (mechanical bull accident)

Easy-ish run around the neighborhood and just a little bit out on Trinity Blvd grassy part.

Beautiful chilly morning, low 40's to start. Ran from Longleaf w/ Jorge at 5:30, stopping at Diane's house. Were passed up several times by the Beka/Melanie/Jason group on their run. Once inside the park I ran a bit with Dr. Randy and also saw and chatted with Arlene for a bit. Turned left onto the dirt road into Seranova tract, running about 4.5 miles before heading back. In sections inside the park the temperature seemed to drop 10 degrees and there was frost on the ground. I saw either 3 or 5 deer (might have seen the same pair twice).

Felt good to get my first big run done and feel like I'm on my way to ultra marathon shape.

While running, I was thinking about the time that "Good Burger" was on tv. My son was supposed to be in bed halfway into the movie but the next morning he was talking about stuff that happened toward the end of the movie -"Andy, did you watch the whole movie?" - "Maybe..", I thought about this and it made me actually laugh out loud.
I took it pretty easy most of the run, with a little speed up at the end.