Saturday was a beautiful clear, cool, dry morning, and my run felt fantastic from the first step. Miles one through three were in the 7-teens, but then the numbers started drifted down. I included 25 levee hill repeats, as usual (I often do 20 or more levee repeats within my long runs), but by the time I got home, I had 15 miles at 7:06. That's way faster than I've run in ... years! I was taking my typical breaks, but it still felt fast and easy and I was pleased.
We also went to a wedding on Saturday, with the most beautiful outdoor-wedding-weather ever. And took a selfie.
But track on Tuesday? Yeesh. That was rough. We did three sets of 500m at mile pace, 100m walk, with a 400 jog between each set. I struggled to keep it at or under 1:50 and felt overheated the whole time. Was it the weather, which was much warmer than Saturday? Maybe, but more likely I just don't do speed well. Give me distance any day!
Nice work on your long run. You are so fast!! I prefer long runs to speed work, too. I just was not built for speed I guess. That is a great picture of you two at the wedding. I love your dress!
ReplyDeleteTuesday was rough. When I left my house at 5:25 am, it was 71 degrees and 90% humidity. Even my shoes were soaked when I got back from track. It's too hard to run super fast in this kind of weather. Your long run mile splits are super impressive though. Wow! 7:06 pace? How do you do it??
ReplyDeleteYou two are such a great-looking couple!
You look lovely in the wedding pic! Nice job on the smokin' long run. Unfortunately, I think the good weather is gone for the foreseeable future...
ReplyDeleteZoom Zoom!!
ReplyDeleteYour distance is my speed. I'd say you were good at both.
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