At the track this morning I finally figured out after five years how to use my watch, and then I found out how it felt to run seven minute miles!

I'll be ecstatic if I can run that fast for the Sandbanks 5 km race next month!

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bogart:
... and then I found out how it felt to run seven minute miles!<HR>

And here I was so happy to see a 9:21 mile on my watch during my run today!! (told you I was slow!)

Dawn

3x1600 last night, kinda blew it on the first interval and puttered along the other two. 7.8 miles total. I've have done 4 but I haven't been running much lately. This morning my legs were dead but I picked them up and carried them for 7.3 recover miles anyway.

The layoff duing my bathroom reno (which is in a holding pattern until a couple of fixtures arrive) meant I didn't do much, so I'm just trying to get things moving again.

Considering I ran a 10k in the spring at 6:43 pace, it's hard to believe mile intervals at that pace are as hard as they are. Lack of mileage sure can kill speed. Anyway, I want 50 miles this week so I've got another 7 1/2 to do later today (a bit too stormy out there this morning).

Anybody know anything about this running group:

http://www.xsnrg.org/hm/[/URL" target="_blank">

I'm looking to join a running group and this looks like a good one. I also think I might join the Toronto Bicycling Network to help me get more long rides in.

Managed 3 whole runs this week - woo hoo!!! Fell down a flight of stairs last night and now I've got a sore butt!!! Might try to do a run today instead of a bike ride.

Dawn

quote:<HR>Originally posted by DawnT:
Fell down a flight of stairs last night and now I've got a sore butt!!! <HR>

Way to go. Join the club.

I banged up my hip for at least a few days. After that I stopped checking.

My Saturday morning long run - 34 km - felt like a muddy trail bike run instead. I knew the ravines would be wet but I had no idea how much flooding had gone on Friday during the storm.

Taylor Creek starting at Vic Park wasn't that bad but as I got closer to the Don...the creek had spilled over leaving lots of mud and sand and downed limbs. The underpass (under the DVP) was about two inches of wet mud and it didn't get much better. Downed trees across the path, especially at the police dog place, shoe sucking-off mud in many other places. You could tell the flood water had been two to three feet above the ground in some places. Almost the entire Don pathway from Taylor Creek to Riverdale was like this. I headed up at the Riverdale stairs, not wanting to chance that metal underpass further south. I was sure it would still be under water.

I realized while running that the DVP had been closed to traffic, and when I got home and turned on the radio heard how bad the flooding had been, with people trapped under the viaduct etc.

My shoes don't look so new anymore, and I'm really thankful no one was hurt (that I've heard of) in the flooding. I bet it's going to take a while to get the ravine path system cleaned up.