April 2009

First long run in hot weather this year. It was 91 degrees. Tough! Managed with a lot of longer breaks and drinking a lot of water. Good exercise. Dehydrated after the run. Legs feel good. Still have a small sore 'crack' in my left foot from the dog evasion maneuver two weeks ago. Only felt it maybe 5 times when me foot came down.

Saw a park ranger with his car on the running trail, later he came back followed by two ambulances.

13.9 minutes/mile. Probably slowest ever! But that's a good thing with this weather.

Great run with NCRC, very nice distraction. Not sure about the distance, there was one course for 8km, one for 7. I ran 45 minutes, so I'm pretty sure it's not 8k since that would have been 9 minutes/mile -- very fast for me.

It starts to be very humid.

Just came back from a 3:10 hour training run in Umstead. Beautiful course. Absolutely exhausted. Pushed it hard. Ran up the hill after the final bridge for 4 minutes. Felt like 20. Made it back to the car about 15 minutes before the park closed. Love running.

13 minutes/mile.

Did interval training, the 3rd and 5th mile of my standard run. 3rd mile: 8:25 minutes. 5th mile: 8:45 minutes.

Had to jump off the course to evade a dog that wanted to lovingly give me some attention in the 3rd mile when I was sprinting, hurt my foot a little bit. I'm pretty sure that if this had happened three years ago I would have hurt my foot a whole lot more.

Beautiful trail run. Combined Cox Mountain with Fanny's Ford loop, for a total of 4.75 gorgeous exhausting miles. First time in a very, very long time that I ran on two consecutive days.

Whole Foods. Felt great. Glad I didn't try to run a long distance, and that I sticked with my plan. Long run next Saturday.

NCRC April series.

Whole Foods. Did 1 mile in 8:45. Felt tough.