Monday, August 1, 2016

A Break from the Heat Wave, Runs and a Very Enjoyable Date Night

Okay, so last week we had a little bit of a break from the heat wave. I was able to do one double day, and got a total of 40.5 miles in.
Tuesday - 6.3 miles, Thursday - 7.2 miles in the AM and 3.5 miles in the PM, Friday - 5.1 miles, Saturday 8.3 miles in the AM and 1.1 miles on the track with DH in the PM, Sunday - 9 miles on the track (6x800mm)

So, I don't think I mentioned last week or the week before that DH had his feet looked at for a good pair of running shoes and wanted to start running as a form of cardio and to lose weight. Nothing big, his current goal is to just reach a point where he is running 5-10 miles a week. Saturday evening we went to the track and the original plan was for one lap, but the first two laps involved some walking, he had to loosen his shoe strings and tie the known towards the inside of his feet as he was noticing burning sensations on the outside of his right foot. It seemed to help, we did 1.1 miles total and he did really good - I call that a date night and hopefully we'll be hitting the track again tonight.
At the track Saturday night


Sunday night, the plan was 6x800m, first a 2 mile warm up and then the intervals and then a 2 mile cool down which should give me 9 miles. After I realized I would be reach 9 miles by the first mile cool down, I called it a night and was happy with it.
According to my garmin, I had two PR's - a 5k time of 23:57 and a 10k time of 48:48, so hopefully this Saturday's race will be an exciting and tough one.

I was aiming for a pace between 7:30-8:00mm as that is my goal pace for this coming Saturday, and I figured it would be relatively tough but easy....ish.
That didn't happen, with the beginning of each hard lap, I found myself around a 7mm pace  WTF!!!
Anyways....
Splits     Time
1           18:33             9:17mm
2            3:30.4           7:01mm
3            4:25.4           8:51mm
4            3:21.1           6:42mm
5            4:39.0           9:18mm
6            3:25.6           6:51mm
7            4:29.1           8:58mm
8            3:27.8           6:56mm
9            4:14.1           8:28mm
10          3:19.5           6:39mm
11          4:21.7           8:44mm
12          3:24.5           6:49mm
13          4:13.5           8:27mm
14          8:35.4           8:35mm



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