Progression Run - 3 miles easy, 6 miles moderate, 2 miles easy. Average pace: 9:11.
Weather: 41°F, 35% humidity, wind 9 SSE.
I was up too late again last night, but not quite as late as the night before, but then I got up a little earlier this morning so that I'd have time for a longer run. I was out the door to start my run at 5:30, but then I had to wait for my Garmin to get its bearings.
Yesterday when I was driving home from work I saw a runner going up a hill near my office. When I saw that I wanted to run that hill (I'm crazy, I know). That particular street is not on the route I normally take when I do my 9-mile office loop run from home. However, I needed 11 miles today, so by extending the route a little bit, I could get that street and get some extra distance, so that's what I did. It ended up not being enough extra distance, so I had to do some winding around the neighborhood at the end of my run to get the distance. Splits were: 10:27, 9:59, 9:45, 8:58, 8:40, 8:42, 8:41, 8:25, 8:38, 9:21, 9:24. After I finished the 6 moderate miles, I felt like I could have kept going at that pace, but I slowed down to an easy pace for the last two miles anyway.
I was reading the May issue of Runner's World yesterday and there's an article about Kara Goucher. In it, she says this: "While training for New York, my watch alarms went off at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. I'd get up, work out, eat, and go to sleep. Then I'd wake up at 5 and do it again. It was really hard, but I liked being that dedicated."
I can't even imagine having the freedom to do something like that. I guess when you're an elite athlete and you can earn money by running, you can do things like that. | 