Archive for November 24th, 2008

Funny how I’m writing more about a race I didn’t even run, but there were 2 notable things I had forgotten.

1. While I was at mile 12ish, a kid (maybe 18?) hopped on the sidewalk and asked if I had a cell phone.  While he’s dialing, he tells me “This was too much, I’m stopping at the Half.”  Not sad, just matter of fact at finding himself out of his league, then I hear him on the phone, “Hey dad, I’m ok, everything’s fine, but I’m stopping early, can you pick me up?”.   When he hands the phone back he smiles and says before running off, “Now you have a running story.”  So cute!  But kid, do I got running stories…

2. There was a young woman who joined our cheering threesome for a while.  She was really nice, involved in our conversation and it was fun to have another person yelling out encouraging stuff – so it was a big surprise when, after about 25 minutes, she sees a marathoner she apparently had been waiting for.  As he runs by, she gets in step with him and is gone in a flash.  It was kinda cool, like “oh, there are runners all over the place.”

But enough race blab, let’s get to the current meat:

Today was an afternoon 8 w/3 tempo, avg tempo pace 7:42.  I went back and forth today on whether I’d bother with the tempo portion.  My 5K is Saturday and I don’t really need to do one (it’s not like it’s going to make a difference) but then I still have race #2 in December soooo…I went for the tempo after all.

As for the rest of the week, I’m doing a little less mileage (around 40) but no speed session.  Tomorrow’s an easy 7 and I hope it keeps raining so I can try my new Hydrolite jacket.  Funny how you want crappy weather when you get new apparel to fight it, and this jacket’s especially in need of a road test because it’s so weird.  I ran some water over the sleeve and the fabric bubbled up like it had scabies or something.  It was gross/cool.  But I digress…

Wednesday is 8 w/strides (5x200m), easy 7 on Thursday, off on Fri and then, race!

Now there’s something about 5Ks I’m not remembering…the distance? noooo…it’s on the tip of my…oh yeah! They make me want to die.

This should be interesting.