Running With LeMire

Easy 3 miles on the treadmill this morning before work. Would have ran outside but didn't feel like running in the pouring rain. Overall felt pretty good.

8 pretty easy miles with the running group. Did not wear a watch or run very hard but had an enjoyable run. 

3 on the treadmill

3 miles with Nathan in the jogging stroller.

4 miles before work.

2 easy miles on the treadmil after work with a few farticks within it.

5 miles this morning before work. Started with a 2 mile warm up fooled by 1 hard mile at 6:37. Then followed up with 2 miles back home to round out the project. 

Saturday group run with the guys that are not running at Boston on Monday which meant the group was missing Drake, Ron, Scott and Jim. Even with those guys missing there was a good group of 9 guys starting off together and ened up dwindling down to 5 at the 8 mile point where I turned off. It was probably the hardest I have ran since my marathon averaging 7:31 for the 8.5 miles. It felt pretty good to push the speed a little faster than I have been but was still pretty tough considering a month and a half ago I was running those easily at 7 flat pace.

Got home and signed up for the Hospital Hill Half Marathon June 7th. Should be interesting is sounds like a hard course and if the weather is hot and humid I could have some difficulties but it will be fun to race again.

Ran an easiy 4 miles this morning before work and was my first morning run in shorts of the year. I had a light tee shirt and longe sleeve on top and was to hot. Looks like it is t-shirt weather again! Legs were a little sore and I could definitely feel the humidity in the air. This week my workouts will ramp up for the Hospital Hill race on Tuesday and Thursday.

I think it maybe time to retire these Red HOKA ONES, they have treated me pretty good!

Today was suppose to be 4-6 400's but the workout didn't go as planned. I ran the 2 mile warm-up to the neighborhood in which I run these workouts in and the first 400 was painfully slow even though it felt like I was sprinting as fast as I could go. Jogged a little then started the next in which I did not feel any better. Therefore I did 2 more pick ups that were more like 200-300 in distance than 400. Then ran home and called it a horrible RUN! Body was just not feeling it at all.

3 mile warm-up

6- 20 second hill sprints on a short steep hill (.75 mi)

1.25 mile cool-down

Overall average pace was not that great but after the first hill repeat the legs felt better and the hill sprint over the six progressively went faster the deeper into the workout.

Did a little something different this morning for my workout since I was up late & up early camping with Jacob and all the neighborhood kids. Me and the other Dads called it a night at 11pm then I was up at 6 and had tent down by 7am. As the kids were playing And getting the day started I headed out on my run. 

I ran over the corner of our development and caught up with the Garmin Marathon. That was the 6 mile point in which I jumped in to run the next 6 miles with him blocking the wind and keeping it positive. Those 6 miles were between 7:08 & 7:23 on the hilly miles. Overal he finished in 3:16 which he was more than happy with. 

Overal I finished off with running back home as the rain started to come pouring down. Total of 9 miles this morning. 

Ran an easy 3 miles this morning after not getting up as early as I should have, but at least I made it out and put enough miles on these Hokas to hit 400 miles!! It is definitely the most miles I have put on a single pair of shoes since returning to running just before Jacob was born. 

Looks like I should pull out my first Hokas and put another 25 miles on that pair. That would mean I paid 30 cents per mile for each of those 2 pairs of Hokas. When you think about shoe costs that way it's not very expensive at all.

This morning I ran a total of 6 miles at and average 7:04/mi for the total run. The workout that I was suppose to run yesterday was postponed to today since I could not get my butt out of bed Tuesday morning. Therefore today's typical day off turned into Tuesday's scheduled workout. It started with a 2 mile warm up followed by 2x1mile repeats. Thought this was going to be a little tough which it was but the results were satisfying. The first mile was ran at 6:19 which I think I started off a little fast but the goal was to run the second repeat at the same pace and the second one was actually at 6:05 instead. Then followed it off with a 2 mile cool down back home. Overall it was a good workout.