Running With LeMire

5 miles this morning in my New Balance test shoes. Today I have felt the best in the last week. I think this head cold is finally going away. Hopefully it will be entirely gone by Fridays race in Brookings, SD for the Jackrabbit Open. I will be getting thrown to the wolves in this college cross country meet.

Well my training for this race was not ideal to return to race in a college level meet that was hosted by my collge team.  Even though I moved 1,000 miles, selling one house, starting a new job, and buying a new house I still ran in the race. Besides all that I was coming off of a cold and the weather was less than ideal for an Arizona runner coming back to the upper Midwest. The snow held off but rain pelted me on the warm up which felt like hail. The rain stopped in time for the women's 5k race to start and my 8k would follow. 

The gun went off and I was in last place in a matter of moments!! I mean last by multiple yards with a gap that was growing!! My watch was reading 5:20 mile! I was a little worried how bad this might turn out!! By the mile market I was comfortably not in last place. I picked some young punch to be my wind block but that only lasted half the race. Once I left him in the dust as Jacob says I was caught in no mans land as usual. I'm to slow for the real racing but not slow enough to be in the back pack. The wind was real strong & the 2 ahead were not in catching distance. The last half mile I was holding off two kids that were getting screamed at to catch that kid. Jamie & a buddy thought it was hilarious and told the old guy to get moving!!  I ended up beating 7 college kids as the 3 oldest alumni on the squad and the alumni took 5 place out of 11 college teams. All in all it was a blast and hopefully next year I can train better for it!!!

Easy 4 miles, muscles and body a little tired this morning from the race, driving, and to much fun in between the 7 hour car rides. 

4 easy miles this morning. It was a bit chillier than I'm use to in Havasu. The temp was in the 30's but felt pretty good & feeling good after.

Easy 4 miles this morning with temps right around 30. Didn't feel that cold but felt good and ran it almost 2 minutes faster than yesterday. Tomorrow I'll be joining a running group here in Kansas City area to keep me going all winter in getting prepared to dual RHETT in the desert March 1st!!! 

                           GAME ON 18 WEEKS TOMMORROW!!

Nice 11 mile run with the KC running club Runners Edge this morning. Felt really easy for my first run of this years training session.

4 miles this morning out & back on 119th. Pretty easy run but still averaged 2 seconds per mile faster than Friday mornings run. Ended it with crunches, back raises & a few push-ups when I got home. Saw a possum on scurrying around in some backyards. Interesting little creature.

5 miles this morning in a warm humid mist of 60+ degrees. Body felt pretty good at 7:25 pace this morning on a pretty hilly course.