Running With LeMire

4 easy miles this morning after having a hard time getting out of bed.  With this run I did reach the 600 mile mark on the year which is pretty amazing for me to hit by the 1st of June.  I'll be running Hospital Hill on Saturday, my Birthday, then I'll be focusing on 5K speed. I would like to run a sub 18minute 5K on the 4th of July in northern MN while visting my parents cabin.

5 miles this morning before work. This morning my knees were a little stiff and sore but I stuck with the plan to run 2 warm up miles stretch a bit then hit 1 mile hard and finish back home with 2 miles. The 1 mile hard felt pretty darn good in both the legs and breathing. I ended up putting down a 6:11 mile comfortably. If I wasn't running a half marathon this weekend I probably would have taken a 2-3 minute rest then hit another hard mile.  Overall average pace for the run was 7:11.

3 easy miles this morning at 7:43/mi average. 68 degrees and very humid this morning which definitely is not ideal running conditions for me.

Ran this years Hospital Hill on my 34th Birthday in 1:29:14 for 5th place in my age group and 28th place overall. Started out with 6 other guys from the run group that all wanted to run sub 1:28-1:30 and I told them I would be willing to pace them along for a few of them to run course PR's of under 1:30. The first 6 miles were a bit on the slow pace in which I just didn't feel like I had it in me. Around that time to just over 8miles the 1:30 pacer was with us and at that point you have 2 miles of slight downhill miles in which my stride finally felt good. We picked up those miles a little and miles 10-12 are all up hill but those hills seemed pretty easy and I past the first place women around mile 11 then caught a few more guys over the last 1.5 miles before on last steep uphill and 3/4 of a mile blazing fast downhill to the finish. Overall I ran about 4 to 4.5 minutes faster than last years Hospital Hill race in the rain. This year is was 72 at the start with 80-90% humidity with cloud cover luckily.