Running With LeMire

Played Hockey again this week. I'm really starting to feel more comfortable out there and everytime I'm on the ice a little bit more of that rust shakes off.

4 miles over my lunch day in the scorching heat of the day. Did I mention the humidity was 89%! Yes it was a cold shower day & my body still wasn't cooled off. Overall still a good day at 7:37 average pace. Felt good & body was a little stiff from hockey yesterday.

Ran over lunch today again but stayed indoors on the treadmill to run my 200 workout again. Started off with 0.75mi warm-up at 6.5 mph, then 6x200 at 10mph with a recovery of 200m at 6.5mph. Finished up those and ran each of the last 3 quarters at 7, 7.5 & 8 mph to finish off the 3 miles.  Overall the legs felt pretty good considering running and playing hockey this week and a late night yesterday at the Royals game.

Ran 4 miles after work since the boys and Jamie are gone for the rest of the week in South Dakota spending time with her mom and step dad. Started off with this run being an easy 4 mile trip but it ended up feeling pretty easy but rounded out as a 7:23/mi average pace.  I wouldn't consider that necessarily an easy run but not really a hard run either. Overall felt pretty good but my achilles lower calf was a little stiff. I have come to the conclusion that the New Balance flats are the issue since I ran in those at the 4th of July 5K where the initial pain started and then again for yesterdays 200 meter treadmill workout. Looks like I'll refrain from wearing those for awhile. Overall I feel pretty good and am trying to get a little bit of everything into the workout schedule at this point.