SHMT, Days 7 and 8
No time to post yesterday, and precious little time to post today, but it's been a busy and productive running weekend.
Saturday was gorgeous. Chilly, but sunny and calm. Met Sharlyn and her daughter at Green Lake for a lap plus a little – 3.2 miles in all – and felt really good about it. Picked up my "Dawg Dash" packet after the run.
Sunday was equally nice, and about ten degrees warmer. Our training schedule calls for 6 to 7 miles today and, fortuitously, the Dawg Dash has a 10K race.
We signed up for the 10K and Kristina and the kids did the 5K. Nathan ran ahead and finished at a 9:25 minute pace - we were pretty impressed. (note to self: see if the junior high school he'll attend next year has a track team)
Sharlyn and I started out too quick, averaging a low-9 minute pace for the first mile or mile and a half. She was smarter and dropped back a little. I forged on and ran a couple of the miles by myself, but she caught me somewhere in the fifth mile. We agreed that this is something we need to watch closely; it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of the race and not run our race at our pace. We'll know better next time. My neighbor Robin ran with us for a couple hundred yards early on - he'd lined up behind us - but being a faster runner, he motored on ahead.
The course wound through the UW campus, from the stadium to the law school, and it was a lot of uphill for the first half of the course. What goes up, however, must come down, and we had gradual downhills and flat to finish it off. I didn't feel bad, so much as I felt more tired than I should have felt. We've done this distance before, just at a more measured pace. We finished in 1:01:33, at a 9:56 pace.
Morning-after update: I'm tired but not really sore anywhere, except for one little area on the front of my right lower leg, of all places.
Saturday was gorgeous. Chilly, but sunny and calm. Met Sharlyn and her daughter at Green Lake for a lap plus a little – 3.2 miles in all – and felt really good about it. Picked up my "Dawg Dash" packet after the run.
Sunday was equally nice, and about ten degrees warmer. Our training schedule calls for 6 to 7 miles today and, fortuitously, the Dawg Dash has a 10K race.
We signed up for the 10K and Kristina and the kids did the 5K. Nathan ran ahead and finished at a 9:25 minute pace - we were pretty impressed. (note to self: see if the junior high school he'll attend next year has a track team)
Sharlyn and I started out too quick, averaging a low-9 minute pace for the first mile or mile and a half. She was smarter and dropped back a little. I forged on and ran a couple of the miles by myself, but she caught me somewhere in the fifth mile. We agreed that this is something we need to watch closely; it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of the race and not run our race at our pace. We'll know better next time. My neighbor Robin ran with us for a couple hundred yards early on - he'd lined up behind us - but being a faster runner, he motored on ahead.
The course wound through the UW campus, from the stadium to the law school, and it was a lot of uphill for the first half of the course. What goes up, however, must come down, and we had gradual downhills and flat to finish it off. I didn't feel bad, so much as I felt more tired than I should have felt. We've done this distance before, just at a more measured pace. We finished in 1:01:33, at a 9:56 pace.
Morning-after update: I'm tired but not really sore anywhere, except for one little area on the front of my right lower leg, of all places.
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