Running With LeMire

Hockey Game: it was again at 10:10pm, which is to late for me. We played a team from the Open (A) league which means they are tipcally very competetive and usually guys that have played a lot of hockey. My team is in the B league which has a little bit larger spread of talent levels. The team we played was pretty good skaters and our team definitely gave them some competition but they held me to only 1 goal which is not good for my team. My teamates had some difficulties against the better skilled players and scoring goals. Overall it was definitely a good workout and fun but we ended lossing 5-3.  1 goal, 1 assist; 2 pts

After a bit of a late start getting out of the door because my 3 yar old was awake at 5:20am I decided to modify my plans. I was originally going to run the College loop (6mi) but then decided I could change it into a 2 mile warm up, 2 mile tempo and 2 mile cool down back home. So I ran out to my typical speed workout location on Iowa and started my 2 mile tempo. I thought if I could keep it just under 7min/mi I would be happy. I started out on the first mile loop and it felt pretty easy at 6:39/mi which was a lot faster and easier than I expected. The second mile of the tempo I started to feel the wind more but the pace still felt pretty good and not to hard. The second mile of my tempo was a 6:32/mi. I am definitely happy with that effort and not really feeling like I was redlining it while doing it. Ran the 2 miles back home and got ready for work.

6 Easy miles

The odd mileage is because I was trying to stay out of the wid as much as possible through the neighborhoods then running the typical 6 mile loop.