Archive for March 29th, 2009

Today was a long run with Audra (aka Doggie poo or Dog lb, depending on where she’s posting).   Since running our marathon together, we’ve become fast friends and though she lives in NYC, she visits here a lot so we try to run together whenever she’s around.

We had different plans for our runs today, she with 12-miles starting from where she was staying, me with a 16-miler which included 15 x 90sec.@10k pace w/90 sec recoveries in the latter half.  In the end, we ran together for 8.5 miles.

I was pretty pooped from the get-go because I had driven Nick to the airport at 5:30 this morning but running with Audra was fun as usual, though we spent a lot of it zigzagging through masses of rowers because there was a huge rowing competition going on.

Then we met up with her fabulous girlfriend Loren and their cutest new member of the family, Bea, the border terrier.  We ran a couple miles all together and then shared goodbye smooches before I turned off to start the fast crap.

Much to my annoyance, during the first 1:30 I got an ache high in my thigh (maybe IT band?)   which stuck around the rest of the run.  My pace was fine, though I skipped one of the fast bits to stretch my leg, so I ended up with 14 of those bad boys instead of 15.  No matter, it still gave me 21 minutes of 10k pace in the midst of a long run, so useful stuff no matter how you slice it.

I’ll admit that I’m happy this was the last of Hudson’s “fartleks” (as he calls them) within a long run.  From here on in, the LRs will be progressions or normal paced runs.  Yay!  Fifteen times anything is about 10 more than I like and makes a progression run seem so inviting.

But enough whining, it’s time to repair to the bedroom for a long, lazy nap.  Later, y’all.