Running With LeMire

Hockey Game tonight occurred during the beginning of the World Series game and ended during the 6th inning so I made it home to watch the 8th, 9th and extra innings of the Royals Championship game.  By the way I had 1 goal and 3 asists.

4 easy miles around 8 min pace.

Hockey Game: We played by far the fastest team we've seen so far this year. The problem was they had a pretty bad goalie. I ended up with 3 out of the teams 4 goals with another shot out goal in overtime to win the game. I also had a penalty for interference which was a pretty lame call.

6 miles in which I ran the first in 8:14 then and tried to run the uphills harder then usuall working on my form and keeping the pace faster. I ran miles 5 & 6 harder and definitely focused on form. Overall felt pretty darn good considering I played hockey last night. Average pace 7:38/mi for the entire run.

Ran the College Blvd loop again this morning just trying to build my mileage up for a long winter of training preparing for Boston in April. This morning I started off with a 8:13 mile then the rest around 7:23/mi with mile 5 right around 7min for an average pace of 7:23/mi for the entire 6 miles. I think that is a pretty good pace for me at this point in the year and my legs did feel a little tired from yesterday.

Ran the College Loop again this morning and it was another day this week of different weather. This morning it was 43 degrees out but with 17 mph winds which made mile 2 easy but mile 4 was directly into a stiff head wind. The rest of the miles where more of a cross wind which wasn't really to bad. Overall even with the heavy winds and wind chill at 32 degrees the run was at an overall pace of 7:33/mi. My hips are still tight so I'll have to watch that and make sure I stretch and ice again this week.

Ran the 6 mile College loop again this morning in 32 degrees and light breeze. Legs felt pretty good considering I haven't ran this many miles in a while. Overall it was a good run with an average pace of 7:24/mi. Felt good overall and spent some time stretching after the run.

Men's Hockey Game at 10:10pm, way to late for this guy!!! Overall it was a pretty easy game and not to rough except when this big old guy decided to full on check me against the boards. He ended up with a 5 minute major in which we scored a goal and he still had to sit in the box for the rest of the 5 minutes. I scored the first 2 goals of the game then an additional one in the 3rd period with at least 1 assist in the books and 2 minutes in penalty minutes for tripping. It was a pretty lame call just playing defence and the guy went down. Oh well we won 6-2 and had fun.

Ran the College Loop after work today since I didn't want to get out of bed during the wind and rain we got over night. Winds over night and early morning were 20+mph with rain at the same time. That did not sound like an enjoyable run so after work run it was.  It's amazing how much looser my body is after work than running first thing in the morning. It doesn't take my body 1+ miles to warm up I can just go and today proved that by opening up with a 7:35mi, 7:07mi (rolling), 6:56 (large uphill), 7:11(rolling), 7:05 (into wind 5-10), 6:52 (hilly). Overall this run was a 7:08/mi average which I beleive is my new record for this route. I thin the previous record was around 7:13/mi average. Overall felt pretty good in the misty weather conditions.

This mornings run was a tough on to get out the door on since I just ran last night and am not use to the quicker turn around. I did switch up the shoes and this morning it was not raining at all but it was even stronger winds of 13+mph making it feel like low 30's even though air temp was 42 degrees. Overall the legs felt a little tired but no real pains. It took my awhile to get warmed up and my muscles never really loosened up. Today's run was definitely not as fast as last nights and I tried to keep a more even easy going pace. I averaged a 7:49/mi pace on this run which was actually a little faster than I originally thought I might run more like 8/mi after yesterdays fast run. 

Ran the College Loop again this morning and do not know my official time since my watch battery died with about a quarter mile from home. I figure it was around a 7:30 something pace this morning though based on what the first 5 miles were. Overall the legs felt pretty good considering it was my 3rd day in a row of running.

Hockey Game: it was again at 10:10pm, which is to late for me. We played a team from the Open (A) league which means they are tipcally very competetive and usually guys that have played a lot of hockey. My team is in the B league which has a little bit larger spread of talent levels. The team we played was pretty good skaters and our team definitely gave them some competition but they held me to only 1 goal which is not good for my team. My teamates had some difficulties against the better skilled players and scoring goals. Overall it was definitely a good workout and fun but we ended lossing 5-3.  1 goal, 1 assist; 2 pts

After a bit of a late start getting out of the door because my 3 yar old was awake at 5:20am I decided to modify my plans. I was originally going to run the College loop (6mi) but then decided I could change it into a 2 mile warm up, 2 mile tempo and 2 mile cool down back home. So I ran out to my typical speed workout location on Iowa and started my 2 mile tempo. I thought if I could keep it just under 7min/mi I would be happy. I started out on the first mile loop and it felt pretty easy at 6:39/mi which was a lot faster and easier than I expected. The second mile of the tempo I started to feel the wind more but the pace still felt pretty good and not to hard. The second mile of my tempo was a 6:32/mi. I am definitely happy with that effort and not really feeling like I was redlining it while doing it. Ran the 2 miles back home and got ready for work.

6 Easy miles

The odd mileage is because I was trying to stay out of the wid as much as possible through the neighborhoods then running the typical 6 mile loop.

Hockey: men's league game was pretty rough this week. We ended up losing 4-2 and we were short people and the team played awful. It didn't help that I was not playing even close to 100% since I have been battling stomach issues since Thanksgiving night. Yes, I woke up in the middle of the night and had stuff coming out of both ends!! IT was horrible and I ended up staying in bed or the bathroom until 2pm Friday afternoon. Those issues continued speratically through Saturday but then Sunday I felt alot better but was still being carefull. I barely ate anything all weekend so I was playing on very little fuel!! Still had 1 assist on our first goal to get us on the board but my team really needs me to score goals also to be able to win.