dawson's running history

Man did I feel stiff today on my run.  I am not sure if it was because I acctually made it over 30 miles last week, or the fact that I blew my diet all weekend long.  Whatever it was, it took a good 3 miles into it to even feel kind of ok.  Especially on any kind of a downhill, my left calf was having a weird pain deep down in the middle of it.  Anyway, I pushed through it and made it to the end of my run.

Today was supposed to be a speed workout with the SGRC, but there were onle three other people there, and I did not know any of them.  I assume Steve Hooper must have slept through his alarm or something...   So, anyway, I decided to do 800's for my first speed workout in a couple of months.  Here are my times for the five 800's I did:

1st- 3:59

2nd- 4:08

3rd- 4:15

4th- 4:17

5th- 4:16

I jogged a 400 between each one, with a one mile warm up, and a one mile cool-down(plus an extra lap in there to come out to 6 miles).  Overall time for the whole thing was 54:33.  Good workout today!

Today was a great day for me!!  I do my runs on Wednesdays as part of my workout at the gym, which means the dreaded treadmill.  I don't know about how others feel, but I cannotrun for more than an hour on the treadmill because I cannot make myself imput everything after the TM stops at the hour mark.  So, that means that I just have to push myself to run as FAR as possible in that time frame.  Up until now I do not think I have ever broke 6.6 miles (If I did, it was one time, and it would have only been 6.61).  I decided as soon as I started out that this was going to be a good, hard run for me.  To make a long story short, by the time I hit the 60:00 mark, I had gone 6.73 miles!  I know that for many of the speedier bloggers out there, this does not seem like too big of an accomplishment, but to me it was huge!  I feel as though the ever-elusive 7 miles in an hour mark is that much more achievable!  Anyway, I know that I will be able to exceed my 30 mile goal again for the week.