This morning I met Chuck and Lance for our weekly early morning run on the aqueduct. We began in the dark at 5 am to avoid the heat and to get me to church on time! Chuck and Lance each raced in my AV Fair Wave race yesterday. Lance set himself a new 5K PR!! Congratulations Lance! Both of them earned top 50 medals.
So, it was actually a bit of a change of our usual conditions. When I am in full training mode, I do a serious workout of some form on Saturday. It would be a long run and it would sometimes have some speed to it. Chuck and Lance do not typically run hard or long on Saturday. So when I join them for a Sunday run, they have fresh legs and I am doing my second long and/or fast workout of the weekend. Today, though I was the one with the fresh legs. They raced yesterday and I was too busy to run either Friday or Saturday. We ran a nice easy 15 miler. Lance was starting to fall back a bit on the last half of the last one, while Chuck was trying to stay with me. Well, now that I wrote that Lance may have been right there with Chuck, but on the 14th mile Chuck and I were talking baseball. So I new Chuck was close behind me. As I began the 15th mile Chuck backed off and I decided to make it a truly fast finish. I ran the last mile in 6:52!
Split | Split | Split | |||
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Mile 1 | 8:58 | Mile 6 | 8:37 | Mile 11 | 8:25 |
Mile 2 | 8:24 | Mile 7 | 8:42 | Mile 12 | 8:31 |
Mile 3 | 8:27 | Mile 8 | 8:41 | Mile 13 | 8:46 |
Mile 4 | 8:20 | Mile 9 | 8:17 | Mile 14 | 8:09 |
Mile 5 | 8:22 | Mile 10 | 8:13 | Mile 15 | 6:52 |
1-5 split | 42:32.7 | 6-10 split | 42:31.3 | 11-15 split | 40:46.0 |
TOTAL | 2:05:50.0 |
The hamstring felt great! I had no symptoms there. The only issue I had was normal fatigue and a bit of tightening in the glute/piriformis on the RIGHT side. (This is the side I normally experience issues with.)