End of Peachtree

More than 10 miles today.  Started with a later group because transit sucked.
Ran the first 2.5 miles even though I had intervals set for 1 and .25 miles.  Walked hills and ran between.  Ran the last 1.2 miles even though I was cramping.  Even managed to pass some folks at the end.  Threw the horns to the camera and pushed through to the finish.
Shirt is not one of my favorites from the vote.  Oh well.

Peachtree Number 2

Less than 12 hours away.  Planning interval runs instead of a straight run.  That might change since I'm running with someone instead of solo.  Only 7.5 hours until the alarm goes off.  Looking forward to that 76 degrees and 80% humidity.

Two days in a row

Walked 3.5 or so yesterday, ran 4.5 today.  It was 90 out there when I finished today.  I'm about 97% sweat right now.  Glad my Peachtree start time is earlier than I started today.

Also today was the first run in a long time that I didn't have any back pain.  Not sure if I did something different or if my back muscles are finally used to the running.  

5 miles at 11 minute pace

Counting warm up and cool down went just over 5 miles in about 56 minutes, 9/4 intervals.  Pretty sure I'll be able to maintain that pace for the Peachtree.  I still have a problem starting at too fast a pace.  I end tool walking more than my planned intervals because I burn out a little.  My phone isn't bad at telling me average pace, but if I set it to tell me current pace it's useless. 

Death of the iPod

Water got into the crack in the screen.  Took it apart and dried it, but the little wire that controls the touch screen snapped.  Luckily I have my phone.  Not as good for some stuff but has GPS, which it's nice for the running apps.

Yesterday was almost 4 in 46 minutes, including warm up/cool down.  About 3.4 in 36 for the run/walk segments.  And that was with rolling my ankle about 1.5 miles in.  Tomorrow will be 4ish at Peachtree wave start time.  Saturday it's 5.5.  Then I walk 2 or 3 times before the big day.

A day late and not quite as fast as I wanted

Skipped the run yesterday.  Just didn't want to get out of bed when the alarm went off so I stayed in bed.  Managed to get up today though.  Didn't quite make my goal of 4.5 in 50, was actually 4.7 in 56.  I'll take it.  That gets me close to what I want to hit for the Peachtree.  And it's close to the pace I had this time last year so that's better than I expected.

Ran about the first mile and a quarter then held the intervals for about 12 minutes.   At that point the legs were hurting and the back was starting to so I would walk 3 seconds past the back pain stopping and the run until it was bad again.  Did remember my posture better so that helped the back.  Overall pretty happy about it.  Probably could have been better hydrated, but still a good run.

Three more runs and a walk or two before the Peachtree.  This is the first day I haven't been dreading it. 

Just shy of 4 miles

Longest total distance in a year.  Not a great run but not bad.  Slower than my goal pace, that's because my Nike sensor was out of calibration so I thought I was going faster than I was.

Tomorrow I try for 4.5 miles in 50  minutes.