I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

I ran the usual loop twice, but each time I added 2 or 3 laps on the track because I didn't want to pass the house before doing my last mile. 

To avoid a disaster, I was good and ate a bite a little before I ran, and then I ran at about a 10 minute pace.  Too many cheese curds in Wisconsin this weekend.  The Neitzels love to eat.

Even though I experienced intermittent bouts of stomach cramps, the run was fine.  I barely even felt like I ran, so I think next week I can go a little faster.

I've never felt that I should log fast mileage before, since my "fast" is not all that fast.  But today I'm excited because my run was great.

I missed the Tuesday fun run, so I did my own fun run.  I started with a 7:33 mile (I only started that fast to see what I could do), ran a recovery mile, a 7:56 mile, another recovery mile, and then a 7:52 mile.

Next time I do this workout, I'll probably start with more of a warmup first.

About 4.5 miles.  It's hard to say exactly here.  Easy pace.

Wish I would have gone for a run this morning.  Squeezed in a light run before putting the kids to bed.

I'll make this a race report when I can actually find the results online...

Ran an easy 1.2 or so warm up.

Race was good, but I already know the mistake I made.  I went out at actually a comfortable pace.  When I saw, though, that my first mile was 7:33, I consciously slowed down, even though I had probably already slowed down by the time I hit the first mile.  It was weird, though, because I didn't feel I was going that fast.  And I felt slow in the first .25 mile.  My second mile was then 8:27.

But after the second mile I felt good.  Once I looked and saw 16 minutes on the clock I picked up the pace because I couldn't believe that I had slowed down that much.  I'm too lazy right now to do the math for the min/mile pace, but I did the last 1.1 in 8:20 or so.   My  official time 24:19.  I had a good kick, which is why I know that I can do better that second mile!

I was pleased overall, since my goal was to be in low 25.  And I seem to always make that same mistake during the 2nd mile, so maybe one of these days I'll learn. 

AND HOLY COW!  I WAS 3RD IN MY AGE DIVISION!  That was a surprise.

A nice recovery run.