15 miles at 6am with my running group at the Trinity Trails. Weather=85F, 60% humidity, SUNNY! Met up with my friends. There was a good turn out today. I ran with these guys Clint and Brian for the first 5 miles. I started to feel really good... felt like I had a ton of energy. The guys wanted to turn around at 5 mile and go slower back to the store because the heat was getting to them. I decided to go another mile out before I turned around. I had to speed up in mile 6 to catch up to Ashley and the other girls. I talked to them at the 6 mile mark and everyone was wanting to do different things. Ashley's foot was hurting and Wendy was sore so the two of them were going to go back to the store at 9:00 pace. This new girl, Brit, who happens to be really fast (she also qualified for NYC and is going this year) and my friend from this blog, Jodi, were wanting to do 16 and14. I decided on 12 for the day but to tempo it back to the store to see how fast I could go by myself. The sun was a beat down. It was directly in my face for miles 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. I was doing really well but the sun did start getting to me by mile 11. With a little more than a mile left, I turned into the shady path that went to the store through the woods. I slowed way down. It was kinda like I hit the wall. Oh well, I did much better today than I have in months! I'd say miles 7-10 were a good little 4 mile tempo. I'm happy with that, especially in the heat. I hung out at the store for about 20 minutes and then Wendy came back and asked me to do another 3 mile loop with her. So that's what I did. Talked to Jodi and Brit afterward and they said they ended up doing 8:15ish on their 8 miles back to the store... with some 7:45's in there. I can't wait until I get in shape enough to keep up with that! mile 1- 9:04 mile 2- 8:35 mile 3- 8:40 mile 4- 8:46 mile 5- 8:41 mile 6- 8:28 mile 7- 8:06 mile 8- 8:17 mile 9- 8:16 mile 10- 8:09 mile 11- 8:56 mile 12- 8:48 Average for miles 1-12: 8:33/m. mile 13- 8:44 mile 14- 8:57 mile 15- 8:30
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