Ran 3.9 miles with Jo at lunch. She hasn't run in about a week, so she wanted to take it easy. We ran between 8:00-9:00 pace. Felt really easy--barely broke a sweat. I think I'll run again with the speedsters after work. It's a little tough being between races right now. My next scheduled race is a 50K in July -- I ran it in about 8:50/mi pace last year. I might give it a little harder effort this year. We'll see how hot and humid the next 2 months are...and if I get any good, quality long runs in...or if they're all going to be "survival" runs in the heat of Texas! I find out in a week if I made the 2009 St George Marathon Lottery. I've got my fingers crossed! Part Deux:
Darin and his 15-yo son, Zachary ran with me after work. Zachary is turning into quite the speedster, but has yet to beat his dad or me in a race. He runs track and cross country and has gotten quite a bit faster this year -- he's gotten his best mile down to about 5:20, but he seems to run out of gas in anything over 2 miles. He was talking a lot of trash, when we started out today's run at a "pedestrian" pace of about 7:30-7:40. He was saving himself to kick us old guys' butts in the last mile. We were planning on 5 miles -- so we toyed with him until the beginning of the 4th mile, when I decided to kick it up a notch. He stuck with me as we did a 6:36. But, then he started fading fast. His dad passed him, too. I coasted to a 6:56 last mile -- with Darin finishing about 30 seconds behind, and Zachary loped in about a minute later, with his tail between his legs. :-) (I'm going to enjoy it while we can..in no time he'll be kicking our butts) 2nd RUN: AP 7:17
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