Running With LeMire

Hoka Bondi: black/gray 4 miles

Easy 4 mile run this morning to shake out the legs after Saturdy's hard long run. Legs felt suprisingly well this morning considering the weekend workout. Today was the first time that the recovery feature on my watch actually said something different from GOOD. It said FAIR which is about how I felt. Overall it was 8:15/mi pace in which the body was feeling better and better as I went on the run.

Hoka Bondi Black/Gray- 5 mi

Ran a 2 mile warm up then ran one mile at GP 6:42 then ran 2 miles home to wrap up the day. Overall the body felt pretty good just a little tired and the legs didn't want to go to fast.

Hoka Clifton (new); 7.14 mi

My new pair of Cliftons I ordered this weekend were delivered last night so I decided to pull them out for their first run. I ran a 3 mile tempo run with 2 mile warm up and cool down.  Total workout average pace was 6:56/mi with building winds that were 11mph.  The 3 mile tempo started off  with a 6:11, 6:06, 5:59 which then I pushed it through the 5k mark in 18:54. Which is the fastest 5k I have ran in over 2 years. My body was actually pretty darn sore from squating and putting together Jacob's basketball hoop that he got for his birthday. Yup the outside of hamstrings and deltoids just pain stiff and sore, I call it the first sign of getting old! Overall a great workout and my feet felt great in my new shoes I'll be wearing in Boston in just over 2 weeks.

Hoka Clifton 2: 14 mi

The running group met for the last long run before the Boston marathon for an easy 14 miles with 5 miles at Goal Pace. We started the goal pace miles at mile 7 which meant for the most part thefirst couple miles of GP miles were all up hill. Even though these miles were all up hill they still went pretty easy at 6:59, 6:45, 6:48, 6:43, 6:44. All of these miles felt pretty easy compaired to last weekends 20 miler with 10 GP miles around 6:32 pace. I should be setup for a good marathon in Boston now to just hope for some decent weather.