Thursday, November 16, 2006

Thursday, November 16

Scheduled workout: 5 miles easy [8:45ish per]
Pre-run snack: Handful of Cheez-Its, granola bar
Weather: 63 degrees, cloudy, some wind
Route: To Red Hook(ish) & back
Real workout: 4.5 miles easy (got up late), 9:00 per
Comments: This one was supposed to be 10 easy, but was out late last night thus slept in. Will have to run the 10 tomorrow instead--not ideal as I'm hoping to run the 20 on Sat. rather than Sun., but we'll see what happens. Anyway, this workout felt... just okay. Coming back up the hill toward the end felt harder than usual, and I kinda felt like I was running closer to an 8:30 pace early on, but no. Part of the explanation could've been my distractibility, as research suggests that by dwelling on non-running-related stuff, as I very much was, one tends to compromise one's pace. Really not that big a deal w/ these short workouts, but I would like to stay closer to 8:30/45, the more I think about it. (I suppose that's precisely the solution: to think about it.) Better luck next time.

Posted by princess kanomanom @ 1:06 PM