Today was supposed to be a vacation day, but that didn’t work out for a slew of reasons. This week has been good, and it got better today:

Sunday – drove to Rochester
Monday – ran 4.6 on the road.
Tuesday – ran 4.6 on the road.
Wednesday – ran 4.6 on the road.
Thursday – ran 4.6 on the road.
Friday – rest day, aka spent the day in the hospital with Dylan while he participated in a research study.

Today, 8/26, I did about 6.3, from my place up to the Duck Pond, and then 1.6 out and back from the Duck Pond trail. Since my way back is slightly different (to finish with the steeper hill), the road portion is 1.5 out and 1.6 back, so that’s how I get to 6.3.

I’m happy because I’ve been running a lot of 5ks on the treadmill, and I want/need to get back to longer sessions. This week helped, and today’s run felt pretty good, so I will see whether tomorrow morning is road or treadmill or what!

Today was the first time at the new 24hr Fitness in Ramsey, NJ.

Run was 6.0 in 58:25, or about 9:44 pace. I was pretty tired at the end. I think this treadmill shuts off at 60 min, so I’m going to have to run faster :-)

A 10k in 60 min is 9:41 pace, so I might be able to do that tomorrow or Tuesday.

Also, my 5k split was 31:05, so I did pretty good upping the pace from where I started at 5.9mph.

Later start than I wanted, but I came instead of skipping.

Did 3.1 in 26:54, which is about 8:41. The negative splits were tougher after 4 days off, but that’s okay too. It’s a very long race we’re all running.

Just missed it.
2.8 in 29:00 – at about thsi point I accidentally bumped out the “emergency stop” key. :-(
3.4 in 33:28
= 6.2 in 62:28

But I was using the treadmill’s distance and pace to increase from 5.7 mph at start and increase .1mph after each mile, with the last .2 at 6.3, a 9:31 pace.

Tomorrow I’ll start at 5.8. And so on. Let me do the math on when I’d run under 9…..