I helped Karen get loaded and off to YW Camp this morning so I missed my run with the guys and went out a little later on my own. Since traffic had begun to fill the roads, I decided to run over to the THS track to run. I decided on a warm mile to get there, a 3 mile tempo run, then a one mile cool down to get back home. I was a little surprised at how much warmer it felt to run at 8:00am instead of our normal 5:45am. It was only about 70 degrees, but it was warm enough that I noticed it the whole time and was soaking wet with sweat dripping from my hat when I finished. I shared the track with a couple of other older runners and with a couple of dozen girls from the THS soccer team. Kevin's daughters are on the team. I saw and said 'Hi' to Lizzy, but I never located Katie, but I was pretty hot and tired so I could have missed her. Those THS soccer girls train hard. It's not surprising they were state champs last year. For one drill they were doing they split into two groups. One group would sprint for half a lap. When they finished, the other group would start. As soon as the second group reached the first group, the first group would take off and run the second half of the lap. As soon as they completed that half lap, the second group would take off again. So each group would run half a lap then rest for as long as it took the other group to run half a lap. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. I just ran my 3 mile tempo run. I stayed out of their way, which meant running in lane 4 (and a little farther) instead of lane 1 now and then, but it was all good. I wanted to stay under 8:00/mi and my mile splits were 7:40, 8:00, and 7:47. I ran a cool down lap then an easy pace home. Not a spectacular run, but it was enjoyable and it's another run done.
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