6 miles easy + 4 x 10 sec. hill sprints. Average pace: 9:26.
Weather @ 6:45am: 54°, 90% humidity, wind 5 WSW, overcast. Very nice weather for running. More humid than it usually is here, but at that temperature, not a big deal.
I've got a very busy day today. I'm very busy at work plus I've got to take Thing 3 in for a physical this morning so he can go to scout camp next week and I've got to get DH as well as Things 2 and 3 off to Fathers & Sons campout this afternoon. All kinds of camping that I don't have to participate in. Yippeee!
I worked on the mid-foot strike again this morning. I tried to do that throughout the run and periodically I worked on lifting my knees higher, but I didn't maintain that the whole time. I'm thinking it's time to get some new shoes. Snoqualmie, is it the Brooks ST3s that you call Magic Shoes?
Last Wednesday when I ran I turned off the auto lap feature on my Garmin so that I wouldn't get a split during the 1.25 moderate I did at the end of the run. I forgot to turn it back on, so I don't have mile splits for my 6 miles easy this morning. I didn't look at my watch hardly at all during that part of the run, but I'm pretty sure I started slowly and got faster over the course of the 6 miles. In any case, the average pace for that portion was 9:23. I do have split times for the hill sprints because I use the lap button to time the hill sprints. Average pace on the hill sprints was 6:00, 6:27, 6:30, 5:54. I tried to really push it with the hill sprints and walked back down the hill in between them. I really like hill sprints. They're a hard effort, but they're very short duration and so they don't wear me out too much. I feel like they really help me build leg strength. | 