Same Time, Same Channel

Easy run. It was shady but kind of windy this morning. My left hip was sore all day yesterday and was sore before I started running, but then it loosed up and felt fine during the run. Maybe my new shoes are causing the problem. I wore my old shoes on this morning's run. I hope I can get the new shoes broken in sufficiently so that I can wear them without problems. I think I'll try them tomorrow on a short (about 3mile) run.

Average pace today: 11:07

Split times: 11:36, 11:14, 11:15, 10:39, 10:53

I'm going to take it easy this week because I have a 10 mile race next Monday.

We had some relatives stay over last night on their way to Utah from Texas and so my sister-in-law and my niece who is about to start at BYU ran with me this morning. They are both much faster runners than I am. They would get lost if I didn't stay with them so I had to run faster than I had intended to run today. I'm sure it was still much slower than they would have liked to have gone. Average pace was 9:20. I know that's not very fast for most people on these blogs, but it's fast for me.

Mile 1 - 9:56

Mile 2 - 9:23

Mile 3 - 8:45

0.15 - 8:48

I'll have to do a slow recovery run tomorrow.

I wore the new shoes and my hip didn't bother me, but the blisters came back. Maybe I'll try moleskin on the blisters. I could try to take the shoes back, but I think I may have put too many miles on them already.

I went to the runners store last night and took my new shoes back. I tried on a bunch of other shoes and I ended up trading them for a similar shoe (the Omni 6 instead of the Omni 7), but a half size bigger and in a wide width. They want me to try the new shoes on a treadmill instead of outside in case they didn't work and I wanted to bring them back again.

So after I dropped my son of at seminary this morning I came in to work and ran on the treadmill in the fitness center we have here. I did all 5 miles at about a 10:55 pace.

The new shoes seem to be working better than the previous new shoes did. The blisters seem better, not worse, after this morning's run.

I've got yoga class this afternoon.

I only intended to run 5 miles today, but I misremembered the beginning of the route I had planned and ended up going a little farther.

I was really sluggish at the first, but then was able to pick up the pace later.

I was running along in the 4th mile and my cell phone, which was in the pocket of my water belt, rang. I've never had it ring during a run before, at least not that I noticed. So I got it out and answered it and had a brief conversation with my son without stopping running. It was maybe a little dangerous because I was on the shoulder of a fairly busy street, but oh well.

Average pace was 10:37. Here are my splits:

mile 1 - 11:08

mile 2 - 11:02

mile 3 - 11:16 (there was a very long uphill in this mile)

mile 4 - 10:04 (the corresponding downhill was in this mile)

mile 5 - 10:04

0.53 - 9:45

On Thursday I mapped out a 5 mile route on map my run. I intended to run that route on Friday (yesterday) but misremembered the beginning and did a different route that was slightly longer. I thought I remembered it and intended to do it today, but this time I couldn't really remember it either, so I had to improvise. Oh well. I got the distance in.

I was pretty tired and I've got a race on Monday, so I tried to take it easy. However, I ran about the last half mile at the pace I want to run the race so that I could remind myself what that pace feels like.

Average pace: 10:22

Splits: 10:55, 10:31, 10:02, 10:21, 10:09 + 0.14 @ 9.27

Saucony Omni 6: 10.14 miles