Running With LeMire

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.