Not-so-fast-running-blog

Pace: Tempo Run (treadmill)

• All miles under 9:00 minutes

Pace: 9:14

Conditions:

• 63°
• Wind WSW 0 mph

Splits:

• 2 mi - 9:41 / 4 mi - 9:19 / 6 mi - 9:16 / 8 mi - 9:41 / 10 mi - 9:10 / 12 mi - 9:07 / 13:58 - 8:10

Observations:

• I had planned to run my marathon pace, but my pace felt comfortable so I kept going
• Attempted to slow pace at 8 miles, but then thought let's practice pushing through fatigue
• Overall, am happy with final 3.5 mile push

Pace: 9:20

Conditions:

• 58°
• Wind NE 0 mph

Splits:

• 1 mi - 10:03 / 2 mi - 9:26 / 3 mi - 9:25 / 4 mi - 9:04 / 5 mi - 9:14 / 6 mi - 8:39
• Girls on the Run 5K - no time/ran as a buddy

Pace: 9:38

Conditions:

• 63°
• Wind SSW 0 mph
• Humidity 60%

Splits:

• 2 mi - 10:13 / 4 mi - 9:42 / 6 mi - 9:29 / 8 mi - 9:38 / 10 mi - 9:41 / 12 mi - 9:15 / 13.02 - 9:09

Observations:

• I was fatiqued from the get go today. Just happy to have finished.

Pace: 6.02

Conditions:

• 68° (feels like 70°)
• Wind SW 6 mph
• Humdity 86%

Splits:

• 1 mi - 9:57 / 2 mi 9:23 / 3 mi - 8:57 / 4 mi - 8;33 / 5 mi - 8:13 / 6.02 - 8:57
• Oh my goodness! Was it ever HOT and STICKY! I did not get out the door until 7 AM.
• Take away from that run - Get up earlier!

Pace: Speed (treadmill) / Hill (treadmill)

• 8 x 800/400 recovery/8:37/9:31
• Hill - Level 5 (wimp)/9:10/1.26 miles

Pace: 10:13

Conditions:

• 59°
• Wind N 5 mph

Splits:

• 1 mi - 11:47 / 2 mi - 10:53 / 3 mi - 10:22 / 4 mi - 9:54 / 5 mi - 9:14 / 6 mi - 8:50

Pace:

• Tempo (treadmill)
• Hill (treadmill)
• 5K - Midnight Run

Splits:

• 1.5 mi - 9.31 / 3.0 mi - 8:57 / 4.5 - 8:49 / 5.5 - 8:41 / 6.5 - 8:34 / 7.0 - 8:09
• Incline - 5.0/1.10 mi - 8:59

Pace: 9:38

Conditions:

• 62
• Wind NW 8 mph

Splits:

• 2 mi - 9:35 / 4 mi - 10:03 / 6 mi - 9:38 / 8 mi - 9:50 / 10 mi - 9:54 / 12 mi - 9:30 / 14 mi - 9:02 / 14:30 - 8.40 

Pace: 9:26

Conditions:

• 64°
• Wind S 9 mph
• Humidity 60%

Goal of the Day:

• Slow easy pace - 10:00

Splits:

• 1 mi - 9:13 / 2 mi - 9:12 / 3 mi - 9:36 / 4 mi - 9:25 / 5 mi - 9:39 / 6 mi - 9:47 / 7 mi - 9:27 / 8 mi - 9:31 / 9 mi - 9:38 / 10 mi - 8:52

Observations:

• Realized after 2 miles, I was running too fast - Although I was happy with that pace. I am typically a slow starter. That pace felt easy, breezey!
• Began to purposefully slow my pace
• Around mile 6, I realized that it was a lot of hard work to slow my pace to 10:00. I decided to just run and let my pace drop to a natural flow. It appears that somewhere between 9:30 and 9:35 is my sweet spot.

Pace: 9:36

Conditions:

• 76°
• Wind SSW 8 mph
• humidit 66%

Splits:

• 1 mi - 10:29 / 2 mi - 10 :01 / 3 mi - 9:33 / 4 mi - 9:21 / 5 mi - 9:36 / 6 mi - 8:34

Pace:  Speed (treadmill) 8 x 800/400 recovery

            Hill (treadmill) 1 mi/Level 5 - 8:57

• Warm-up/Cool-down - 9:12
• Recovery - 8:57
• Speed - 8:27

Pace: Tempo (treadmill)

• 1 mi - 9:34 / 2 mi -8:57 / 3 mi - 8:49 / 4 mi - 8:41 / 5 mi -8:34 / 6 mi - 8:27 / 7.25 mi - 8:00
• Hill (treadmill) - 1.12 mi/8:59/5.0

Average Pace: 8:56 (Holy cow!)

Conditions:

• 68°
• Wind SE 0 mph
• Humidity 90%

Splits:

• 1 mi - 9:38 / 2 mi - 9:13 / 3 mi - 8:52 / 4 mi - 8:57 / 5 mi - 8:48 / 6 mi - 8:25 / 6:38 - 8:04
• Running was relativily easy today!

Averae Overall Pace: 9:29

Conditions:

• 71°
• Wind S 16 mph
• Humidity 57%

 Splits:

• 2 mi - 9:33 / 4 mi - 9:38 / 6 mi - 9;16 / 8 mi - 9:24 / 10 mi - 9:33 / 12 mi 9:24

Average Pace: 10.02 

Conditions:

• 57
• Wind ESE 5 mph
• Humidity 57%

Splits:

• ​1 mi - 11:05 / 2 mi - 10:16 / 3 mi - 9:27 / 4 mi - 10:00 / 5 mi - 9:29  / 6 mi - 9:34 / 6. 50 8:40
• Running in Reno, Nevada - Clueless as to where I was going so time was slow

Overall Average Pace: 9:02

Conditions:

• 64
•  Wind E 7 mph
• Humidity 19%

Splits:

• 1 mi - 10:30 / 2 mi - 9:28 / 3 mi - 9:16 / 4 mi - 9:30 / 5 mi - 10:06 / 6 mi - 9:17 /  7 mi - 8:12 / 8 mi - 8:31 / 9 mi - 10:25 / 10 mi - 9:05
• Ran without any hydration since the dogs chewed chewed the bottles for my running belt. With the low humidity in Reno O only felt hot and parched at mile 9.
• Easier run today since I knew where I was 

Average Overall Pace: 9:44

Splits: 

• 1 mi- 10:59 / 2 mi - 10:02 / 3 mi - 9:30 / 4 mi - 9:05 / 5 mi - 9:09 / 6 mi - 9:02 / 7 mi - 9:42 / 8 mi - 10:15 / 9 mi - 10:03 / 9.54 - 9:20

Pace: 11:12 (San Francisco)

Average Pace: 10:09 (trail run)

Walnut Creek, CA

Observations:

- This is what ran through my mind as I ran,

"With a hill, hill here,

And a hill, hill there,

Here a hill, there a hill,

Everywhere a hill, hill..."

Pace: 9:47 (Walnut Creek, CA - hills)

Pace: 9:40 (back home in Columbus, IN)

Conditions:

• 72°
• Wind WW 13 mph

Pace: 9:29

Conditions:

• 62°
• Wind W 6 mph
• Humidity 57%

Splits:

• 2 mi - 10:01 / 4 mi - 9:35 / 6 mi - 9:52 / 8 mi - 9:01 / 10 mi - 8:55
• I felt extremely sluggish this morning
• My new shoes felt tight and heavy

Pace: 6 x 1km / 400 recovery (treadmill

• Speed - 8:34
• Recovery - 9:22

Hill: 8:59/5.0/1 mile

Average Overall Pace: 8:48

• Strength Training - run was phyisically and mentally difficult up to mile 4
• Treadmill
• Hill - 1 mile

Yesterday/Rest Day:

• 30 miles on bike (mostly flat

Average Daily Pace: 9:25

Conditions:

• 74°
• Wind S 14 mph
• Humidity 61%

Splits:

• 1 mi - 11:01 / 2 mi - 9:44 / 3 mi - 9:57 / 4 mi - 9:16 / 5 mi - 8:58 / 6 mi - 8:49 / 7 mi - 8:32 / 7:40 - 8:33
• I really felt the heat when I started running at 5:15 AM. Also, my toes and the tops of my feet hurt for the first few miles. I had to mentally focus on other thoughts otherwise I would not have finished my run.
• I had hoped that by going back to the Brooks brand of shoes this foot problem would go away. It may just take some time. I know that the shoes are wider than my Saucony's.