Fly me to the moon...

I have been running pretty consistently since May when school got out, but I haven't been logging the miles at all. Since June, I have been running at the same time with the high school team and have joined them for some workouts even. Surprisingly, this old guy can keep up with them just fine despite being almost three times their age.

Workout today was 0.75 miles warmup, stretching, and then a 4.9 mile loop near the airport. It is a nice run with some shade and some hills. I ran with the top two guys on the team and finished in 37:18 (7:37/mile).

The high school team was doing a hill workout at Eads hill in Charleston. I despise hills, so I did an easy 5 miles in 39:40 (7:56/mile). I then decided to try some of their workout and did a 300m up, 2x200m, and a 400m at the end. Their hill wasn't nearly as bad as a couple hills I ran up in my 5 mile loop. I felt pretty good the whole time.

Easy 1.2 around the neighborhood with William.

Easy run in the late morning on my Walgreens loop. Time was 25:15 for 3.2 miles (7:53/mile). It felt good. The effort was there but my legs were a bit tired.

I did a couple laps around the high school for about 2.8 miles for a warmup. Then I ran a couple mile repeats with the high school team. They did 3, but I just did 2. I ran the first pretty consistently paced and finished in 6:39. I ran the second half of the next repeat pacing my daughter and ran about 3:30 for the first 800m. I then put in a surge to catch the guys and finished the mile in 6:36. I finished with a half mile cooldown. The miles felt pretty good. I maybe could have gone a little faster, but my legs are feeling it a bit after a long week with some increasing mileage. I think some strength training would help because my muscles aren't as strong as they used to be. I think back to doing mile repeats in college and just cruising to do 5x1 mile around 5 minutes each.