Waverly goes 6.5 miles at Run The Woodlands!

Sunday afternoon was excellent to get in a "recovery" slow jog for me as Waverly logged 6.5 miles for the first time ever as we did the Run The Woodlands 5K course twice (and added an additional loop and a half around the parking lot to pick up the extra .3 miles).

The first 5K, I tried to get her slow jog as much of it as possible and she made the first mile without any problem. She walked a little bit of the first parts of miles 2 and 3, but I tried to used the idea of possibly hitting 40 minutes in a 5K for the first time ever.

Mile 1 -- 13:01.20
Mile 2 -- 13:50.91 (26:52.11)
Mile 3 -- 13:36.30 (40:28.41)
Last .1 -- 1:14.21 (41:42.62)

So the first 5K was 41:42, which is 12 seconds off her time from the Klein HS Bearkat Bash 5K. I explained to her that she's fairly close to doing that if she can bring those last 2 miles in line with the first one.

.3 mile connector -- 4:05.17 (Since just beyond the start line to the finish line is .1 of a mile, we walked from the finish line to the start line on the other side and then added one full loop of the parking lot. At this point, we were doing a quick brisk walk.)

Mile 1 -- 14:33.06
Mile 2 -- 14:23.02 (28:56.08)
Mile 3 -- 13:59.95 (42:56.03)
Last .1 -- 1:06.31 (44:02.34)

I let her brisk walk most of the next mile, but I challenged her to run a little bit to the "blue dot" that signified the end of the first mile of the 5K. Then I told her to brisk walk 3 minutes and then we'd run 2 minutes. But Dad ran for 3 minutes! She'll catch on sooner or later, but she improved each miles and for the first time ever, she was running in miles 4, 5 and 6.

Total time - 1:29:50 - a pretty good (for her) 13:49/mile

My first half marathon? November 1, 2003, I did the White Rock Half Marathon in 2:50:52.0, 13:02/mile. (I'll be tickled pink if she finishes, but the closer she can get to my first effort ... the more I'll be estatic!)