Lunch - 5.1 miles outside on my Lunch Run course. I started out at what I thought was an easy pace, but it ended up being about 7:20 for the first mile (the only one I know the approximate time for, because I forgot my Garmin today at home). At about 1.5 miles, I got passed by a guy who was moving at a pretty good clip. I let him go at first, but then after about 1/4 mile or so, I ended up speeding up out of sheer competitiveness, and reeled him in, resulting in a 1/2 mile at threshold pace - probably around 6:20 pace is my guess. Then our paths diverged, and I tried to slow down, but was unable to really slow down to around 8:00 pace, as my legs were now tuned for running faster. With about 1.5 miles to go, I picked up the pace again to what felt like faster than MP, so I am counting it as threshold miles. Average pace of 7:04/mile for the entire run.
PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel at average pace of 9:51/mile. After four consecutive personal records, he finally ran a little slower today, although still under his old smoothie pace. I think I am going to have to modify his smoothie goal to 9:30 - 10:00 is just too easy for him now. Afterwards, 0.65 miles with Joey in average pace of 10:40/mile. Likewise, I think I need to modify Joey's smoothie goal time to either 10:30 or a little faster. |