Happy Birthday To Me!

Workout: 2 mile easy, 30 min tempo, 1 mile easy

Wow… I really felt bad at the beginning of this run. I was light headed and fairly sure I wouldn’t be able to the entire distance. We did a 2 mile warm-up and even that seemed a little taxing. I was running with Justin, Jeff & Chuck on the warm-up, but Justin wanted to run a little faster on the tempo run than we did. He was shooting for 7:30’s. So we all took off and Just jumped out in front by about 100 yards.

Well I think that’s all it took for me to feel motivated. I kept him in my sights most of the run and really seemed to grow stronger towards the end of the run. I included my tempo run times before, but they include getting caught at a couple of traffic lights, and I did not stop my watch. I’m guessing we were running in the low 7’s. Really fricken fast!

I was really exhausted by the end of my run and my side hurt but I was amazed how fast I was able to push it. I think my training must really be paying off.

Is Chicago here yet?

Here are my splits…

Warm-up: 2.08 mile @ 9:15
Tempo 1: 1.85 miles @ 7:39
Tempo 2: 1.82 miles @ 7:41
Cool-down: 1 mile @ 9:05

6.75 miles/56:23/avg 8:11