6 2/3 Miles on a Friday Afternoon in Houston?
To those of you who I bent an ear in an e-mail earlier this afternoon, thanks for listening. :)
If you are reading this first and haven't checked your e-mail, well, I guess that means you have something to read now!
Most Fridays, except the next two, I work from home. It is what I love about the consulting job that I have. We travel out on Monday mornings, come home Thursday evenings and work hard in between. But I have some latitude on Fridays as long as I get work done, make meetings or conference calls, etc.
Sam Rodriguez wrote earlier this week in a post about runs that are confidence builders. I think many of us that ran the Space City 10 Miler were a little beat up still and I thought I was getting back on track Tuesday, but the world got on top of me a little bit the last 48 hours.
So this afternoon (yes, in the middle of the day), I headed over to Meyer Park on near the intersection of Cypresswood and Stuebner-Airline. We ran by it this year during the Klein HS Bearkat Bash 5K/10K (twice for that). There are two running/bike paths in the park: one that is a 1.33-mile loop on the north side of Cypresswood and a 1.25-mile loop on the south side.
I've almost always done the loop on the north side. There are markers at 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 1.25 and 1.33, but today I was just focused on getting some of the rust off and making sure that I ran the entire time. (There's a water fountain or two along the path, but this was a dry run for me.)
I felt good most of the time, particularly when there was a nice breeze. There were some other runners out. Many who were going the opposite direction and by seeing where we intersected, I could tell they were just a little faster than me. But there were one or two that weren't and/or didn't have the same stamina.
I did 5 loops. After the 4th loop, I stopped my watch and was going to walk some. But, I walked back to the start of the 1.33-mile loop, hit my watch twice and got another one in.
Loop 1 -- 14:20.15 -- 10:50/mile
Loop 2 -- 14:57.07 -- 11:14/mile
Loop 3 -- 15:12.35 -- 11:26/mile
Loop 4 -- 14:51.65 -- 11:11/mile
Loop 5 -- 14:25.86 -- 10:51/mile
Total: 1:13:47.08 -- 11:04/mile
The time wasn't fantastic, but it was a confidence builder and got me back on the playing field again!
If you are reading this first and haven't checked your e-mail, well, I guess that means you have something to read now!
Most Fridays, except the next two, I work from home. It is what I love about the consulting job that I have. We travel out on Monday mornings, come home Thursday evenings and work hard in between. But I have some latitude on Fridays as long as I get work done, make meetings or conference calls, etc.
Sam Rodriguez wrote earlier this week in a post about runs that are confidence builders. I think many of us that ran the Space City 10 Miler were a little beat up still and I thought I was getting back on track Tuesday, but the world got on top of me a little bit the last 48 hours.
So this afternoon (yes, in the middle of the day), I headed over to Meyer Park on near the intersection of Cypresswood and Stuebner-Airline. We ran by it this year during the Klein HS Bearkat Bash 5K/10K (twice for that). There are two running/bike paths in the park: one that is a 1.33-mile loop on the north side of Cypresswood and a 1.25-mile loop on the south side.
I've almost always done the loop on the north side. There are markers at 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 1.25 and 1.33, but today I was just focused on getting some of the rust off and making sure that I ran the entire time. (There's a water fountain or two along the path, but this was a dry run for me.)
I felt good most of the time, particularly when there was a nice breeze. There were some other runners out. Many who were going the opposite direction and by seeing where we intersected, I could tell they were just a little faster than me. But there were one or two that weren't and/or didn't have the same stamina.
I did 5 loops. After the 4th loop, I stopped my watch and was going to walk some. But, I walked back to the start of the 1.33-mile loop, hit my watch twice and got another one in.
Loop 1 -- 14:20.15 -- 10:50/mile
Loop 2 -- 14:57.07 -- 11:14/mile
Loop 3 -- 15:12.35 -- 11:26/mile
Loop 4 -- 14:51.65 -- 11:11/mile
Loop 5 -- 14:25.86 -- 10:51/mile
Total: 1:13:47.08 -- 11:04/mile
The time wasn't fantastic, but it was a confidence builder and got me back on the playing field again!
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