Ran 4.25 miles durng lunch today. I had finally registered at our local fitness center in our building so that I can take advantage of their facilities and shower after I run, so today was the first day of using it. I ran up Priest Drive/Galvin Parkway to McDowell, then left on McDowell until I hit 17:00. Averaged 8:00/mile up to the turnaround. Turned around and ran the second half in 15:10, but it was all downhill. 7:08 average coming back, but I am not counting this as MP effort because it did not feel hard due to the downhill. It was kind of warm out - I am really hoping that the temperature will finally cool down to where it is supposed to be soon. Course was Lunch Run. Other than the warm weather, it was quite nice to get out and run during my lunch hour, and I think this is really going to help me finally shed those unwanted pounds while not having to wake up at an insanely early hour to go out and run (not to mention having to run in the dark, which I don't like doing). Another 2.5 miles planned this afternoon with the boys.
PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel - he got his smoothie today, and did a marvelous job. I worked real hard to keep him from taking off at the beginning so that he could run even splits, and he did very good with that. Total time 14:41, average pace of 9:53/mile. Another 0.86 miles with Joseph, averaged about 11:30 pace. | 