Is that Buster Poindexter I see?

09mi, aidsmarathon

Start time: 06/11/05, 7:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 9 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 11:00min/mile

“Hot hot hot” was the order of the day, and it wasn’t even in the 80s! Gotta love the crazy DC humidity. Today’s run was one of attrition; we lost one person two miles in (who switched over to the 11:30 group for the rest of the run), then two more around mile six. The good news was that aside from the occasional water stop we hit all of our miles right on pace. We’ve got a great group, a bunch of real troopers. Our half of the “Cathy O’Brien” group actually fared better than the other half, which I think came back in something like five different sections. Oops.

It’ll be interesting to see how everyone’s doing next week as the temperature continues to rise…

2 thoughts on “Is that Buster Poindexter I see?”

  1. what time do you usuall do these runs?

    I know we’ve already changed our starting time from 10:30 to 9:30, and I can see us moving it down to 8:30 once the Sacramento heat really kicks in.

    1. For the official training group, it goes like this:

      May: 8am
      June-September: 7am
      October: 8am

      However, two runs in July and two runs in August (the 14, 16, 18, and 20-milers) start at 6am to keep everyone from dying of heat exhaustion.

      From November through April my unofficial group usually meets at 9am.

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