Thursday, October 28, 2010

Steady Run

My plans to run this morning were thwarted by an early morning work meeting. I ended up meeting two guys from my running group after work for a 4 "steady" run instead. My steady pace is supposed to be 10:30-10:50. Here's what happened:

mile 1 - 10:41
mile 2 - 10:37
mile 3 - 10:31
mile 4 - 9:44

The first three miles were bang on, but that last mile was a tad bit fast. I think we sped up because it was getting dark. That last mile wasn't exactly what was on my schedule, but it served as a nice confidence booster for the 10K on Sunday.

[edited to add...looked more closely at my Garmin data. We didn't really speed up until the last half mile which was actually at a 9:01 pace...that's faster than my 5K pace. Aye carumba! ]

Of course the downside of running tonight was that I didn't get to test my race outfit for Sunday. Which might not have been such a bad thing, since I haven't figured out what I'm wearing anyway. Hahahahaha.

9 comments:

  1. Good luck on Sunday! I think the 10k is a tough distance.

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  2. My run group did the same thing last night...steady, steady and then busted it out for the last couple of km.
    ....for us we wanted to go home and eat dinner. :)

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  3. nice negative split. I think sub-10 should be your steady now :-)

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  4. Have a good weekend and have a lovely run on Sunday!

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  5. Good luck and have fun!!!

    Test your race outfit? Is this a runner thing? Why do you test race outfits?

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  6. Nice run with a great pick-up at the end! Good luck with the 10K.

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  7. I love a little speed at the end of a run. Nice job.

    Good luck this weekend.

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