Running With LeMire

Ran this 10K in Hastings Minnesota because I actually ran against Nick in 8th grade as he was senior in high school. My college teamate Andrew Sorenson actual was a highs school teamate and friend of Nick's also. On the website if you go to the photo's section of Nick there is a photo of the two of us racing each other. We just happened to be heading to MN for the weekend to visit family and this race poped up on the list and I had to run it. I new it wasn't a very fast race going it to it so I thought I could possibly win it dependent on how many high school kids showed up. As expected one 15 year old raced the 10k and left me in his dust going up the Mississippi river bluffs in Hastings at about mile 4. There was no catching him after that even though he kept turing around looking to see where I was at. I came in a strong second place with no real worries of anyone catching me. First 3 miles where sub 6:10 so I think I could probably break 18 minutes in a 5k right now which is my goal this summer.

Easy run

Easy run

Ran 9 miles with Runners Edge and averaged 7:38 per mile. Felt pretty good during the run but was pretty tired later in the afternoon. Training for my upcoming race June 7th is not going that great but maybe it will just be a fun run with friends since 4 out of the 5 guys I ran with on Saturday are all signed up for Hospital Hill Half Marathon.

Road for 30 minutes on the trainer after the boys went to bed for the night. Felt pretty good to be on the bike for the first time in a very long time! Worked on just keeping a high cadence.

5 miles before work this morning. Felt pretty good and kept it at a pretty good pace after the first mile. Average was 7:38/mi

Easy 4 miles this morning. Overall I felt tired but legs didn't feel to bad. Just kept it easy today knowing tomorrow I will run 10 miles.

10 mile run with the running group in which everybody was having GPS watch issues so I do not know my total time but I know we were flying at around 6:50-7:10 for every mile of it except the first one. It was a good run that started with 8 and ended with 6 on that pace. It was a very hilly course and we were fying up the hills this week which felt good. Overall a great run.

5 easy miles this morning before work. After Saturday's hard run I think I may have sat down for 45 minutes total the rest of the day finishing off the playground construction, buying patio furniture and playing with the kids. Around 8:30pm they went to bed and that was the first time a sat down in which it was time that I was putting food in my mouth. Oh, wait I didn't even eat lunch just breakfast after the run then dinner around 6. What a crazy day but good one.

Started off at 8:22 for the first mile and then finished off the run with a 7:32/mi average. Not to bad of a run. If only I could find time to add in speed and strength workouts to get faster. I have been hoovering around this pace for some time now and want to get faster.

5 easy miles this morning. IT rained pretty hard last night which made this morning very humid which is a very different feeling then what Arizona provided the last 7 years. It will be interesting to see how the humidity works on my body after being away from it for so long. Tomorrow we are going to run the Hospital Hill Half Marathon course in preperation for the June 7th race. Should be interesting and give me a good idea of what I can run in two weeks. I haven't been running any sprint workouts so we'll see how it goes.

Went and ran the Hospital Hill course with a couple of the guys from the run group and felt the pain of the hills that is to come on June 7th. I don't think this will be a PR type of course so the question is how will I attack the very difficult Halh Marathon course. I'm thinking I'll take off a bit on the easy side then see how I feel at the half way point and pick it up from there. If I break 1:30 I would be happy with this course. There are a couple short steep hills and some vary long ones. The longest hill is 1.8 miles long that starts at about the 9.5 mile mark. At mile 11.5 there is a really steep short hill then downhill the rest of the way that seems easy but it is dangerously downhill that you could bite it if not carefull!   We'll see how it goes June 7th!

Body felt horrible this morning! I think I have been workin to hard at home on the weekend with the combination of my runs and yard work!

4 easy miles

Ran with the running group and averaged around 7:27/mi.