Monthly Archives: June 2005

7am and all is well

08mi, aidsmarathon

Start time: 06/04/05, 7:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 8 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 11:00min/mile

When our training group switches over to 7am runs, we often have a few people miss it because they’ve completely forgotten about the time change. We still had nine zillion runners this week in our group, so that was the end of that idea! I took half the group out (Pam was running the Race for the Cure) and we did really well, staying on pace pretty much the whole way through. It’s a good group of people and while due to the numbers we’re all still getting to know each other, they seem nice.

Must remember to buy more Clif Shots later today. I’m down to my emergency Vanillas, and if that isn’t incentive, I don’t know what is. (Well, ok, I also have a box full of Apple Cinnamon Carb Booms but those I save for long runs to use as rewards, because they’re so delicious…)

Late start

05mi

Start time: 06/01/05, 6:10pm
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 5 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 10:47min/mile

A slightly late start this evening; I got trapped on a conference call at work, but fortunately Mark and Julie were nice enough to wait for me. Mark was feeling a little creaky (he made up on Monday the 7-miler he missed from the weekend, but ran it too fast) and Julie had banged her ankle against the coffee table pretty hard last night, so we took it at a comfortable pace. Even then, we still maintained a nice beat and I can see improvement in everyone in the group—especially Julie, who’s definitely more used to the ratio and the speed. Next week I think we’ll start really buckling down on getting our three-person group runs into a little faster pace overall.