You still want to get faster? Nut! You ARE fast!!

I was up at 5:40 (early for me!!) to get 6 miles in. It was 66 degrees (beautiful) but with 93% humidity (DISGUSTING!). A cool thing happened on my run: I was running MUCH faster than I felt I was. At one point I looked at my watch, thinking I was going around 10 min pace... it was 8:45, but it felt so much easier than that pace usually feels for me!  I even outran this guy who passed me about 2 miles before. All in all a good run

Oh! And I saw "Len"! He had less beard, more glasses and was much less friendly than the real Len!

Double Oh! (This post was edited twice because I don't do mornings)... I was running up a tough hill today and I caught a rhythm and I'm not sure why it popped into my head, but I started imagining myself as if I were in boot camp and Jimmy was shouting cadence in my ear right behind me. Although I don't know any cadence, so it was really Jimmy just right behind me yelling at me, but it got me up the hill!

I ran six miles in the blazing, beating, sweltering sun...   Crappy 9:52 pace.  Then walked another mile.  It's hot!

Just finished my tempo run this morning. Temp / Humidity was 89 & 52% (which probably means rain later). Today's selection was 5 miles @ mid tempo pace, so that worked out to 8:05 min / mile for me.  The one thing I noticed was there was no "1 mile easy" in the instructions to start off. Bummer. That meant if I wanted to have any prayer of hitting my goal in this heat, the first mile had to be within 20 seconds or so of the target. So off I went at about 6:30, which was about 30 minutes later than I had hoped. Mile 1 - 8:06. A good start, but not sure what that would mean for miles 4 and 5. The second and third miles were right on the number, but the heat was definitely having an impact. I gulped down more water and pressed on. Found a little shade between miles 3 and 4 that I could run in and out of. Mile 4 - another 8:05. Must have tapped in to some of the carbs from last nights spaghetti. That gave me some motivation for the last mile. That split was 7:36, and boy was I spent. I probably only had to walk about a quarter mile home and I bet it took me close to 10 minutes. Total time 39:59, which is pretty much right at 8:00 min / mile. I'm very happy to get that over with. On with the rest of the day. Have a great back half of the week everyone. Talk to you soon.

Karl

I don't know about that.  So many variables on race day.  It's one thing to hit your targets when out running by yourself, and quite another when you are out with 30,000 of your closest friends.  That's why I think I will try to hang with a pace group this year.  Other runners might be more inclined to make way for them.  The operative word being "might".     Talk to you soon.

Karl

Another day, another race. Westfield 5K & Pizza Extravaganza! Hope the pizza doesn't get too soggy (wet pizza, blech!), the hourly forecast says 80% chance of thunderstorms.

Another 5 miles with hill intervals, after yesterday's shi!!y run today was a breeze, even the hill repeats. Now I'm cooking spagetti sc for Jimmy and Liz for Friday's carb loading dinner.  BTW the weather here is atrocious, it's raining cats and dogs and it's supposed to do that till tomorrow night.  I'm hoping it'll dry out some on Friday, it's supposed to be dry then.  Everyone keep your fingers crossed.