Monthly Archives: May 2005

I got up early for this? :)

04mi, aidsmarathon

Start time: 05/07/05, 8:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 4 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 11:00min/mile

Oops, almost forgot to put this down for my records. The 4-miler with the training group felt almost silly to have gotten up early for; it’s very easy to get blaise about this sort of thing after so many years! It was nice to be able to meet the new people in the running group, though, or rather groups since there were so many people in our pace time that we’re split into two. Our pace group leader was still trying to find footing for this particular speed; one mile we were thirty seconds under, the next one thirty seconds over, and so on. It’s a fine art to hitting those times just right but hopefully later jaunts down the W&OD as a group will go smoothly, given time.

Picking up the pace a tiny bit

04mi

Start time: 05/04/05, 6:00pm
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 4 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 11:00min/mile

Now that it turns out that Julie’ll also be in the 11min/mile group with me, it was easy to convince her to push the pace up by thirty seconds or so. A beautiful day for running, just about perfect. Julie seems to be adjusting to the new pace well, which is nice to see. Going a little faster and closer to my old “maintenance run” speed, of course, is an added bonus. Right now I’m just enjoying being able to go running after work with Julie though, so that’s good. Eventually as it gets hotter I’ll probably shift back into running before work on my own before the temperature gets too high, mind you. (Additionally either this week or next I’m going to probably add in a Thursday running session by myself, now that I’ve looked over the speedwork guidelines for AIDS Marathon this year. Should be fun!)

Race for Hope 5K

05k, pr, race

Start time: 05/01/05, 8:30am
Location: Washington DC (Pennsylvania Ave/Capitol Building area)
Distance: 3.1 miles
Average pace: 8:45min/mile

This is always an emotional race, running alongside brain tumor survivors as well as families who have lost members to tumors. I ran with Julie and Laura for the first mile (9:44), then picked up the pace big time to hit my goal time (8:34 for mile two, and an 8:37min/mile pace for the remaining 1.1 miles). There’s a much longer write-up about the race in my main journal.