Running With LeMire

Ran an easy 3 miles this morning after not getting up as early as I should have, but at least I made it out and put enough miles on these Hokas to hit 400 miles!! It is definitely the most miles I have put on a single pair of shoes since returning to running just before Jacob was born. 

Looks like I should pull out my first Hokas and put another 25 miles on that pair. That would mean I paid 30 cents per mile for each of those 2 pairs of Hokas. When you think about shoe costs that way it's not very expensive at all.

This morning I ran a total of 6 miles at and average 7:04/mi for the total run. The workout that I was suppose to run yesterday was postponed to today since I could not get my butt out of bed Tuesday morning. Therefore today's typical day off turned into Tuesday's scheduled workout. It started with a 2 mile warm up followed by 2x1mile repeats. Thought this was going to be a little tough which it was but the results were satisfying. The first mile was ran at 6:19 which I think I started off a little fast but the goal was to run the second repeat at the same pace and the second one was actually at 6:05 instead. Then followed it off with a 2 mile cool down back home. Overall it was a good workout.

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.