We all know I love a good virtual race. I particularly love virtual races where you don't have to run all the miles at once. http://cooktraineatrace.com/ Over the last three days I've run the first half of the marathon and on Saturday I'll run the second half at the National Half Marathon. Run #1 - 6.1 miles in 59:55 The weather was beautiful. I wore shorts and a t-shirt. My legs felt great. I ran negative splits. I even had one sub 9 minute mile. If every run felt like this, I'd run every day. Run #2: 4 miles in 41:57 This run was not the day before's run. It was chilly and windy (gotta love VA in the spring - you never know if it's going to be in the 70s or the 30s and some days it hits both). My legs were super … [Read more...]
Fab Four for Reese
I ran my four miles for Reese's Run (there's still time to sign up!) today because I won't run tomorrow or Saturday in preparation for the GW Parkway 10 miler on Sunday. I planned to take it really slow and easy, but apparently I suck at pacing myself. The first mile was 9:05. A little fast, but mostly downhill. About a third of the way through the second mile, I was really regretting it, thinking I'd gone out way too fast. Then I looked down at Garmin. I was running uphill, into the wind, at an 8:50 pace. Oops. No wonder I was dying! I ended up doing the 4 miles in 35:43, including a few stoplights. Not exactly the slow run I planned, but it felt good, nonetheless. The Lululemon shorts totally rocked the run! They were so … [Read more...]
FFFK Virtual Race
In honor of Non-runner Nancy, USJogger organized a Freakishly Flexible 5K to be run on or around Valentines Day. Since Nancy has done so much for us running bloggers, including hosting the very first virtual run I ran in, I decided to participate and let her know how much she's appreciated. I was planning to take it easy, but apparently I fueled myself well last night, so I ran it in 26:39 (8:39, 8:40, 8:31, 0:49) which is not my fastest 5K ever, but is pretty darn close. I then finished up with .9 miles at a 10 minute pace to get in my 4 that I needed to do. All in all it's been a great weekend so far. After a nice dinner out last night, which included a Scotch Ale and a cask-conditioned Brown at Rock Bottom Brewery, we took the boys to … [Read more...]
7 on the 7th times 3
I originally planned for last Sundays 12K to be my "7 on the 7th" and was quite pleased with my 1:03:15 time. Then I ran 12 miles on Tuesday and figured I should count that 7 since it was closer to the 7th, but my time was closer to 1:08. But, oh my goodness, it was GORGEOUS today! I couldn't resist going for a long run and decided to turn my tempo run into a 7 mile run. I ran a warm up mile a little too fast and then did 3.5 miles at an 8:45 pace. Like any good tempo, miles 5 and 6, which were not meant to be at tempo, were my "I think I'm going to puke" miles and were much slower. I got things back together for mile 7 and ended up finishing 7 miles in 1:03:05. Woot! I'm pretty sure that's a personal best for that distance. I'm … [Read more...]
