AM Dinner time lop with some strides. Keepin it short this morning because of a kooky half-marathon Lacy and I are doin tonight in Mapleton. The goal of the race is to finish at midnight without wearing a watch for assistance. I'm just gonna keep a decent effort that will hopefully translate to 6:15-ish pace., so my start time is gonna be 10:40. It's a full moon tonight and there's supposedly gonna be a meteor shower. Should be a pretty cool experience. My legs are still feel a little heavy from Wednesday, but this is more for fun than anything. 4.20 w/ 4 strides, no watch 10 PM The Moonlight half is a fun time. Pretty weird running hard without a watch, but seeing everyone's glowing costumes and having the moon light up Hoble Creek Canyon was pretty rad. The course goes up the canyon for 2 miles, then turns around and comes back down(so you pass the starting line at mile 4) the canyon for the next 6 miles or so, which actually has quite a few rolling hills, then goes along the outskirts of town and ends in the town park.
I ran the first 1.5 miles of the course with Lacy and few friends before heading back to the start. I was gonna start @ 10:40 and shoot for a solid time, but I wanted to run with Lacy for a few miles before the end, so the plan was to start when I saw her coming back(her mile 4) before starting and then catch up to her before the end. My legs were feelin beat from the mileage this week so far but I was able to push rather hard. Saw Lacy about 9.25 miles in and decided to run the rest of the way with her. It was fun and she was stoked to have me there since she was hurtin over the last few miles. I have no idea what my pace was during the first 9.25 miles, but I was feeling it, so I'm gonna chalk it up as threshold miles. We ate cake after and had a beer before heading back home at 1:30 AM. Stopped @ Beto's along the way for some late night burrito action. :) 3 warm, 9.25 miles @ T-pace, 3.85 cool, Total of 16.10 miles, no watch.
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