Archive for April 3rd, 2008

Had another great interval session today, I’m learning to love these things.

Happily, the UPS guy brought my Mizuno Inspires yesterday, so like the freak I am, before going out I weighed all my running shoes on my digital postal scale. Turns out my Asics and Brooks weigh 11oz, but the Mizunos are 10.3 to that’s what I decide on for the speed session.

It was my usual 6×880, but this time I set the recoveries at a 1/4 mile, so they were quicker than last week’s 3:00 per. My splits for the work part were 3:31,3:35,3:29,3:35,3:36 and 3:36 for an avg. of 3:34 (or 7:08 pace). I’m pleased as punch, progress on these has been steady and oh, so satisfying.

Afterwards, I finally decide to stop and speak to my construction worker boyfriend from this post, and this one because he’s been my cheerleader for months now and is apparently a runner, too from what I’ve gathered during our on-the-run three-word conversations.

So I stop and he tells me, “Girl, you have lost weight!” which I haven’t, he’s just never seen me standing still, then he asks me what time I’m shooting for at Broad St. and I ask what his goal is, then I ask him where he gets the time to run with all that construction stuff he does, he tells me he runs at the Y on a treadmill. So that was cool. Then he asks my last name so he can “look me up” and with a smile I say, “don’t you be looking me up!” and off I go, speedy in my new Mizunos.