This morning I got up at 5:20am to go help and move our daycare equipment around at our new facility, because the owner was going to have the floors stripped and waxed. When we got down there the equipment was already moved around in the facility, and that was a bummer. I wouldn't have had to get up so early which I didn't sleep good, and I felt like a walking zombie getting ready to run. This morning was very cold, windy and rained the whole time on the run. The temperature was 39 degrees, but I wore shorts anyway. The first few miles I felt dead running up towards Olympus Drive which is a half mile short from turning on Satterfield St. I ran slow (8:00, 7:42, 7:35, 7:35,7:28) Then I warm-up a bit and hit some faster miles (6:55, 6:59, 7:11,7:09,7:08). I wanted to pickup the last two miles on the way home, because it was cold and I was ready to be home to take a nice hot shower (6:49, 5:57). (Mizuno Precisions 8 - 374 miles) Lunch: No run I was on with Oracle support way past when I usually go to lunch and I was too hungry to go on a run. I plan on running the Hear and Sole course tonight right after work that I was going to do on my lunch hour. This is a 10k local race that I'm going to run next week (June 14th). This is a very tough course where 3 miles of it are uphill. I won it two years ago (I didn't run it last year), and I came from behind to do so, and won by over a minute. This year there's suppose to be some ISU college guys running it so all probably try to hang with them. Evening: After work I ran the Heart and Sole course as a practice run for next weeks 10k. The course is pretty difficult and somewhat challenging, well any race is challenging. Mile 1: 6:49 - first .3 is all downhill than the rest of the mile is uphill. I took it easy on the downhill and then push somewhat about 70% effort on the uphill. Mile 2: 6:27 - this mile is rolling hills and I just took it nice and easy and pushed at time in the mile. I didn't want to kill myself because I was running in a 15mph wind. The strategy for this course I think is to be conservative the first two miles. Mile 3: 5:48 - partly up hill and downhill and I really pushed the downhill portion.
Mile 4: 5:51 - flat and I pushed this mile in the wind, and the effort felt harder than it should have.
Mile 5: 6:20 - all uphill and I pushed it pretty hard.
Mile 6: 6:57 - all uphill and I cut my pace a bit because I felt my effort was trying too hard and I didn't want to wear myself out. The course I think is going to be .2 short if I started at the correct start line. But I did push it out to 6.2, but not running very hard the last .2 to finish at a 39:20. Then I finished with a cold down mile to total 7.61 at an overall 6:20 pace in 48.14 minutes. I don't feel fast at all and it's obvious with my times and lack of speed work. I've focused on the marathon so long that I haven't done a lot of speed work. With the WBR coming up I'm not going to do that well. I'll just enjoy it and relax on the runs.
(Saucony Tangent 3 - 48 miles)
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