I returned home from South Dakota on Monday night so I was not able to run much last week. I did do a lot walking while I was hunting for pheasants. How ever I did eat a lot of junk food and a whole lot of sprite and red meat!!!
I decided last night after dinner that I would go out for a short run and see how the legs would respond to 3.1 mile tempo run. I didn't eat a lot of dinner so I felt like I would be ok to run and hopefully not get a side ache.
I started out with a .5 mile warm up, 8 min pace. I ran the Salem Days 5k route, starting at the mile 1 and then coming back towards my house. I wanted to start some what slow and then try and work my way down on the pace.
mile-1 6:50 this starts out flat and then has a small down hill part.
Mile- 2 6:13 this mile is mostly down hill, with aabout 1/4 of it flat.
Mile- 3 6:13 this mile has some rollers and for 1/2 mile and then the last .6 is straight uphill. I was holding a 6 min pace until I hit 2.9 and then had to stop or I was going to have an accident :( I have never had this happen to me before. I jogged the last .2 so it slowed my pace down. I had to make a quick stop at the church and then jogged really slow the rest of the way home. I was glad that the church was open!!!!!
My legs felt really good the whole run, I never felt like I was out of breath or like I was pushing the pace to much. The pace actually felt really comfortable and I felt like there was more in the tank. I would really like to run a 5k or 10k some time in the near future. I hope to get out tonight and go a little longer. | 