Same Time, Same Channel

A every so slightly faster run.

5:13 am, 36°F, 42% humidity, winds calm.

I ran with Sam again this morning. I took him to a running store and they did the gait analysis and everything and I bought him new shoes on Saturday. But he still had knee pain when we ran this morning. After the run and after his shower, I put KT tape on his knees. We'll see if that helps. He wore shorts to school (crazy teenage boy) and I noticed that he pulled his shorts down a little lower than usual to hide the bright green tape on his knees. As he got out of the car for seminar this morning, I told him to pull up his pants, but I doubt that he did.

We ran just a little bit faster today than we did last week. At least we didn't have any mile slower than 11:00 today. I think Sam is getting a little tired of my slow pace. He left me with a little less than 1/4 mile today and ran home ahead of me.

Despite our slow pace, it was not easy for me. I was breathing in 2 breaths and out 1 the whole time, which shows that I was working hard. I am just so fat and out of shape. I've got to get my diet under control somehow.

I just signed both of us up for the Turkey Day 5K. Last year I beat Sam on a Thanksgiving Day 5K by several minutes. He will undoubtedly beat me this year.

AP: 10:34. Splits: 10:43, 10:44, 10:18, 0.04 @ 9:41. (I included that 0.04 at the end just to show that I sped up a little at the end. Also, that last bit is uphill.)

Slow slog.

5:14 am, 23°F, 50% humidity, winds calm.

Sam and I started out on our normal route, but we hadn't gotten very far when Sam said he wanted to run on the track to change things up. So we took a small detour from our normal route and went to the middle school track. We had gone a half mile when we got to the track, so we decided to run 8 laps and then run home to get our 3 miles. We ran together for about a half a lap and then he decided to speed up and see if he could lap me. When he finished his 5th lap, he decided that he wouldn't be able to lap me, so he stopped and waited for me to finish my 5th lap (I was about a half a lap behind him when he stopped). Then he ran the remaining 3 laps and part of the way home with me. We had to go up the hill sprint hill to get home and when we got to the bottom of the hill sprint hill he left me and ran home faster than I did.

I've registered both of us for the Turkey Day 5K and he's going to beat me easily this year.

I did run a little faster today than I have recently.

AP: 10:07. Splits: 10:11, 9:51, 10:17, 0.04 @ 10:24.