Start time: 01/14/06, 7:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 6 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 6:1
Average pace: 9:33min/mile

It was a small group of people this morning; just me, Tod, and Dave for a 6-miler. I’d woken up around 2am for a massive thunderstorm rolling through the area and it took me a solid hour to fall back asleep, so I was a little worried on how I’d be doing. I was pretty happy with the end result, though; we did a run:walk this week and I felt really strong the whole way through, even picking up speed at the end. Since I’d set my eyes on the 9:30min/mile group as a potential training option for 2006 marathon season, it was nice to knock six out at “their” pace and ratio and feel like yeah, I can do this. Great run, great weather, great company. I can’t ask for much better than that.

(And as the music playing right now says, “You’re the greatest gift that I could ever wish for.” Well, yeah.)