Friday Workout: 2 miles at an ultra marathon pace

Saturday Workout: 9 miles, 8:45 pace

Today: over 5 miles, 42:14

So I got a little distracted this weekend, but finally got a chance to sit down and catch up on my blogging.

Friday I decided to see what a few miles at the pace I plan on running the ultramarathon at would feel.  And, just as I suspected, it felt pretty good.  I felt like I coulda just kept running and running.  My Garmin yelled at me a few times to slow down, but all in all I stayed at the pace I wanted to go, so it was a pretty good workout.

Saturday was the 7 am group run with Team in Training (I still need donations…please take a minute to donate now!).  We ran in Cranford through some of the parks there.  I’d say about 15 people showed up.  Turned out to be a good run.  Ran 6.5 of it with my friend Alex…we do a good job of pacing each other.  Then he went to run with a few other people, so I had to finish up by myself.  The last .8 was rough…didn’t think I was gonna make it.  Guess that’s what happens when your last 9 mile run was like 5 or 6 weeks ago, and you’ve been running inconsistently since.  But, I made it through and am glad I did.

Today I went back to that park by my house to see if I couldn’t run it a lot better than I did last time.  This time I memorized the map before I left so I knew where to go.  Luckily today was a little cooler, and a lot less humid.  It turned out to be an amazing run…one of those runs where your legs just keep truckin and truckin, stayin quick and feeling good.  I left the garmin at home…just went old school and brought my Timex watch.  Feels good to stay simple sometimes.  I still find it amazing that I was out there for over 40 minutes, on multiple trails, and there was NO one else out there running…it’s such a great place to run!  Ahh well, my secret then.

Well, time for me to knock out soon.  Keep it strong, and run on friends!