I ran 6.8 miles yesterday to leave me with a nice round 50 miles left to go for the year. (Yeah, I'm a bit obsessive that way). It was a really good run for two reasons: 1) I was running while Beer Geek was walking Jones to school, so I circled around in our neighborhood for the first 1.5 miles so I could run past them three times. Jones loved it and ran a block with me each time. I've got to look at some of the age appropriate training stuff out there for him. 2) I ran completely negative splits through the end of mile 6. I'm too lazy to go find Garmin and he needs charging anyways, but the first mile was around 9:55 and I got a few seconds faster each mile until mile 6 was run at 9:05. The reason Beer Geek was walking Jones to school … [Read more...]