Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Catching up

It's been very hot the last few days, even in the morning, so all runs since last Saturday have been either indoors or before dawn.
On Sundays I generally don't have the opportunity to run early, but since the runs are short and slow, I don't have a problem with going to the gym. So last Sunday, with the temperature in the mid-90s by the middle of the morning, I went to the gym for 4.6 miles in 40 min. on the treadmill. It was hot in there, too, but not as bad as outside.
Then on Monday the scheduled had a hill run on it, so I picked a rolling route in the neighborhood for 6.5 miles. It was warm, but I started out slowly and acclimated myself to the conditions and had a nice run. I did the hilly distance in 1 min. and 14 sec. for an average of 9:16.
Today the temperature was 85 when I got up at 5:15, but at least there was no sun yet, and a nice breeze. This was supposed to be an easy 6, but after a day off on Tuesday I felt energetic and turned it into a tempo run. I opened with a 10:35 mile, then did 9:35, 8:53, 8:33, 8:22, 8:13 and 3:59 for the last half mile. That's an 8:57 average for the whole run.

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