Running Log

August 23rd
Distance = 6 miles
Total Time = 48:20
Average Mile = 8.02
Notes = Woo hoo! I made it 6 miles! And it was really no big deal. I think that's because I was at Pearson Park again and runs rarely seem like a chore there. I went around 7:20 p.m. and purposely took it easy after race day, but my time was still decent. Bummer that it's getting darker earlier, though. I think I would like to get up to 7 miles and consistently have a once a week "long run" of 6-7 miles. That should hopefully set me up for the 10K well (which is 6.2 miles, by the way).


August 25th
Distance = 3.5+ miles (broken up as fartleks, stairs and cool down laps at the high school track again)
Total Time = not calculated because of the type of workout
Average Mile = 1st mile was 7-ish mins, 2nd was 7:20-ish, 3rd was 7:30-ish
Notes = 7:45 p.m. There were a bunch of men working on prepping the football field for Friday's game while I ran around the track. I recognized one of the men as the father of the girl who stood to beat my mile record the last few years. (But alas, it's still standing - wink, wink - and is now 12 years old.) So I think that gave me inspiration to push a little harder. Haha! I did a cool down lap between miles before starting another one. And I did 10 sets of stairs in the bleachers between miles 2 and 3.

Also, as an aside... Wes and I have been questioning the accuracy of our chips after they told us we'd finished the 5-miler a few hundred meters before the finish line (even though we'd both calibrated on the track prior to race day). Then a couple other marked runs seemed "off" too. So I checked on both of the first 2 miles today and they are dead on. Weird. So perhaps, there's room for error somewhere, but that 5-miler may have been more like 5.2???

And one more thing: my grandma managed to acquire a list of all the finishers from the 5-miler and it's been interesting to go through it and see everyone's places and times and several other names that I recognize. There were a total of 511 finishers. I placed 162nd overall and 37th among the women. They also list ages and it was just lovely to find out that I was beat by four 12-year olds... 3 of them girls! LOL Good for them. I wish I were that good at age 12.
Anyway... moving on...


August 28th
Distance = 5.01 miles
Total Time = 39:16 (Hmm... really? Questioning the accuracy again.)
Average Mile = 7:49
Notes = It's frustrating to be unsure of the accuracy with these chips. This was a mid-day run (read: HOT!) and my legs were feeling like dead weight again. So it makes no sense that my time was that good. I think it's wrong. Boo.


This week is going to be a little tougher to squeeze in evening runs due to prior commitments. I'm hoping to at least get 2 week night runs in.