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7 miles at 6:20am. Weather=83 degrees, 52% humidity, 64 dew point, 0 mph wind, sunrise. Average pace= 9:22/m

Ran 3.5 miles out and back to my house. I was feeling sluggish and tired. I figured I was dehydrated so when I came back to my house I drank a bunch of water, reset my watch and went back out on a different route also 3.5 miles. After drinking water I felt much better. The second route actually had more hills but it felt easier.

Mile 1- 9:29

Mile 2- 9:24

Mile 3- 9:37

Mile 3.5-9:19

Waterstop at my house

Mile 1- 9:32

Mile 2- 9:04

Mile 3- 9:11

Mile 3.5- 9:15

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Race: The Fort Worth Running Club's High Noon Shoot Out

1.2 miles at high noon whilst pushing Jake in the running stroller

Weather=95 degrees, 40% humidity, 5 mph wind, sunny. It was HOT!

The reason I'm not putting this in a race report is because I was pushing Jake in the running stroller. I put Jake in a tanktop and pinned a running bib to it. He gave me updates all through the race about what other people were doing. He was concerned that there was a man on a bike who passed us on the trail during the race that was not holding onto the handle bars. (He'll be 4 yrs in September)

This was an informal race. The gun time was what we went by... I got 9:45 for the 1.2 miles officially. However, I was pretty far back from the starting line (and the only one with a running stroller). I started my garmin timer when I passed the starting line so I guess my "chip time" was what my garmin recorded= 9:10 for 1.2 miles (7:46/m)

Mile 1- 7:52

Final .2 - 7:15 pace

I think my time would have been better for the first mile but I got stuck behind some slower runners for the first .1-.2 mile... I finally went into the grass to get around them... and pushing a stroller through grass was a pretty big drag on my energy.

I would have liked to see what I could of have done without the running stroller.

Put a picture from this race as my new profile picture.

10.2 miles this morning at 4:45am. Weather=82 degrees, 59% humidity, 67 dew point, 4 mph wind, dark. Average pace=8:43/m.

Mile 1- 9:53

Mile 2- 9:16

Mile 3- 9:00

Mile 4- 8:37

Mile 5- 8:24

Mile 6- 8:30

Mile 7- 8:24

Mile 8- 8:30

Mile 9- 8:21

Mile 10- 9:01

Ran with Ashley and Tim this morning. We did something different today. Normally, we just run around the neighborhood 8 miles and I borrow tiny sips of Ashley's water bottle. Today we ran 3.5 miles out then back to my house for water. Then 3.2 miles out and back to my house for water. Then another 3.5 miles and everyone went home.

I was guzzling water and I felt great the whole run! It is such an advantage to drink water!

10.2 miles at 4:45am. Weather=82 degrees, 63% humidity, 67 dew point, 7 mph wind, dark. Average pace=8:43/m

mile 1- 10:03

mile 2- 8:54

mile 3- 8:55

mile 4- 8:26

mile 5- 8:25

mile 6- 8:32

mile 7- 8:26

mile 8- 8:22

mile 9- 8:31

mile 10- 8:38

Ran with Ash and Tim same route as yesterday. Feeling stronger and stronger. We have so many hills in this neighborhood.  Every run is a good hill workout! 

I am behind on sleep. I keep going to bed at 9 but I think I really need to make an effort to fall asleep by 8 tonight so I can get caught up. I don't want to risk injury with all these miles lately.  When you wake up at 4 am, the day goes by so slow! 10 am feels like it should be 1pm already.

10.5 miles at 4:45am. Weather=82 degrees, 66% humidity, 69 dew point, 7 mph wind, dark. Average pace=9:04/m.

mile 1- 10:07

mile 2- 8:41

mile 3- 8:29

mile 4- 9:02

mile 5- 9:00

mile 6- 8:51

mile 7- 8:26

mile 8- 9:19

mile 9- 9:26

mile 10- 9:20

mile 11- 9:03

Ran with Ashley and Tim today. We went slower for most of it but I was charging the hills. Mile 3 and mile 7 were uphill. Ash wasn't feeling good today so she and Tim left after 7 miles and I did the rest on my own.

Ashley was asked to be part of her company's corporate running team and they are flying her to San Francisco this weekend to compete in a big corporate track meet (several companies have teams and are competing)! Pretty cool. She's running either the 5k or 10k. She's getting paid to do this. They are paying her hotel, flight, per diem and a paid day of work off. She's taking Tim with her.

Track workout at 4:45am. Weather=83 degrees, 60% humidity, 67 dew point, 11 mph wind, dark.

1 mile warm up- 9:22/m

400m in 1:35

400m in 1:42

400m in 1:40

800m in 3:29

800m in 3:27

800m in 3:28

1 mile cool down- 8:24/m

Went to TCU track this morning. I can't recall ever doing a track workout in the morning. It's difficult to convince yourself to start running fast at 5 in the morning.

I didn't really know what time goal I should go for on this since I haven't done a track workout in probably a year. I plugged my PR for a 5k into a training calculator and it said I should do about 3:28 800m repeats and 1:40 400m repeats.

Actually, I just ran by what I "felt" was a good pace for the repeats and it ended up being almost dead on to the training calculator. We rested for 2 minutes between each repeat. Ashley's leg was bothering her so she was slightly behind. I have no idea what Tim was doing but it was ALOT faster than us!

I think I actually could have gone faster or else I could have done several more repeats. It felt easy... probably easier than what it was supposed to feel like. This was the most repeats we had time for because of the drive time and we had to be home by 6:30.

10 miles at 6:30am. Weather=85 degrees, 60% humidity, 69 dew point, 14 mph wind, sunny.

mile 1- 7:59

mile 2- 7:39

mile 3- 7:40

mile 4- 8:06

mile 5- 9:29 (big hill)

mile 6- 8:26

mile 7- 8:36

mile 8- 8:30

mile 9- 8:09

mile 10- 8:31

A rather disapointing run with my group. My plan was to try to run with the fast guys and Emily today. They usually average 7:45 for long runs with the final couple miles in the low 7:00's. In theory I should be able to keep up. In theory...

However, I guess I need more work. I also had a few things not going my way. My sports bra was too tight. I don't think I hydrated enough prior. My ipod wasn't working properly. The water stops were a huge let down because the water was HOT, not even worth drinking they were so hot. Not to mention this HOT water was only at 1.5 and 2.5 miles, then on the way back at 7.5 and 8.5 miles. Terrible spacing!

In miles 4 and 5 I was running and seeing other water buckets for other running groups in the distance thinking it might be ours but then we'd get there and it wasn't ours. UGH! James (store owner) was running with us and he said he was going to "talk" to the guy who was did the water today. He was pretty pissed.

But most of the others in the group didn't seem too affected- not like me. Most of them just ran El Scorcho last week and this was easy running for them. I, however, was dying. To me this pace was a tempo run and I wanted cold water. Then at mile 5 we turned to go up this steep hill... if I were guessing I'd say 8 or 10% grade. James and some of the others are training for Pike's Peak ascent so they wanted to run it. It was relatively short, maybe only 100 yards. But still. I made it half way up and I decided that was enough for me. I wimped out. I turned around and went back the way we came to the store.

Another guy had also wimped out and I started running with him. However, he was in worse shape than I was and he was stopping at the water for other groups and then walking alot. I ran/walked with him for about 3 miles and then the told me to go ahead.

I tried to speed up to 7:45 for the remaining couple miles but I failed because I got a stitch in my side... I think all the walking ruined it. I did my best but it was a sufferfest.

So disappointing. I need to re-evaluate my training here to see how I can best get myself running 7:45's. Maybe some mile repeats and tempo runs.