13 Miles @ 6:01 avg pace. The plan was to do 17 miles with 7.5 miles @ 5:30 pace, but I ran out of time. My wife is out of town for a funeral and my sister could only watch my daughter until 10:45, and I simply didn't get started on my run soon enough. But it was still a good run.
Met Ken Richardson, my brother Jared, and his friend Delia at 8:05 to carpool up to Morgan Valley, where we planned to run on some rolling hills. We dropped Jared and Delia off at the start to give them a headstart and then Ken and I dropped a car off 7 miles out. Finally, Ken and I got started and Ken ran the first 7 miles with me to his car. We ran that stretch in 45:09. He stopped there, as he only planned on 7, and picked up Jared and Delia. Then the three of them drove alongside me for the next 6 miles. I ran a 5.5 mile tempo on this stretch with splits of 526 524 531 (this mile was interrupted by a huge herd of cattle that took up the entire road! I thought I was going to get trampled!) 527 530 and 229 for the last 0.5 followed by 0.5 mile cooldown. Then I raced back to pick up my daughter just in the nick of time. Then we all went and got a nice breakfast...great morning. |