... due to some beautiful (but relatively hot) weather I had intentions of waiting 'til about 8:30 or 9pm to get my run in last night but then, right around 5:30 or so this big old, ominous grey cloud came rolling into town out of nowhere (well, okay, out of the SW, but that's not the point)... I decided I had better get my run in while the gettin' was still good... the route was new for me, which was nice, what wasn't so nice was the strong head wind I meet on the final mile and a half that was coupled with a big hill (one I had managed to forget was so freakin' steep).... oh well, I survived... I finished the run in 30:28, which works out to a 7:37 minute per mile pace, I wasn't too thrilled about it when I got home and crunched the #'s but in retrospect, I 'm fairly happy with my time considering the hill, the wind, and that my knee wasn't feeeling100%...
Tonight's an off night as I mentioned before... I didn't think I'd like it when I saw it scheduled but I'm actually pretty happy about it today!
You know what else I'm happy about? Sunday! Sunday I get to do 7 miles :-D
I haven't done this route since early April, when I think I initially hurt my knee, it's an awesome run!!!
On a different note, I've been trying to figure out what my marathon goal should be, although it's still 6 and a half months off, it's still interesting to think about. Originally, I was thinking about shooting for a 4 hour time, which works out to a 9 minute plus mile, I'm currently averaging a 7:15 minute per mile pace, but, of course, this is at a much shorter distance.... it's tough to come up with a time goal because, on one hand I want to have something to aim at so that I push myself to reach said goal, but on the other hand, I don't feel like failing on my first attempt at 26.2... I'm glad I have plenty of time to work this out... hopefully the #'s start to make things more clear for me come July & August when the long runs start getting into the mid teens and the "short" runs are still a good 6 miles... we'll see....
Check it out... here's a fun "even splits" break down of a 3:20 marathon (the pace I was running last night)...
mile 1 - | 0:07:38 |
2 - | 0:15:16 |
3 - | 0:22:54 |
4 - | 0:30:32 |
5 - | 0:38:10 |
6 - | 0:45:48 |
7 - | 0:53:26 |
8 - | 1:01:04 |
9 - | 1:08:42 |
10 - | 1:16:20 |
11 - | 1:23:58 |
12 - | 1:31:36 |
13 - | 1:39:14 |
14 - | 1:46:52 |
15 - | 1:54:30 |
16 - | 2:02:08 |
17 - | 2:09:46 |
18 - | 2:17:24 |
19 - | 2:25:02 |
20 - | 2:32:40 |
21 - | 2:40:18 |
22 - | 2:47:56 |
23 - | 2:55:34 |
24 - | 3:03:12 |
25 - | 3:10:50 |
26 - | 3:18:28 |
26.2 - 3:20:00 |
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