Early Friday Morning Run
Wow! I even got out on the roads this morning before Barbara!
Actually, I left the hotel here in Vancouver, BC at about 1:55 a.m. Pacific and headed out for a cold-morning run. (I do have an early departure to the airport to come home.) Knowing that the forecast for Sunday morning in Alpharetta, Georgia is going to be 27 degrees, I figured it would be good to get a feel for what I needed to wear. (I had a long sleeve technical shirt with a pullover fleece-type piece. I may need to add one more light layer - dependent upon if this is any wind on Sunday.)
Weather.ca said that it was 32 degrees Farenheit and that it felt like -4 degrees Celsius or almost 25 degrees. When I finished my run and stepped inside of the 7-11, the clerk said, "Isn't it cold out?" I think we was surprised to see me in shorts and nothing on my head!
When I look at the numbers, it was a good run for me right now even though I felt like I was running in quicksand.
I was on this route and covered 6.39 miles (10.29 kilometers) in 1:07:39. Of course, all of the cyborgs playing along at home will know - without looking at the pace chart - that this was a pace of 10:35 per mile - on hills.
The way that my work schedule plays out it looks like I will be here for the 50,000-person Vancouver Sun Run 10K on Sunday, April 15. It is one of the top 10 runs in the world - if the metric that you're using for top is the number of finishers (which is what Running USA uses.)
You might even be able to call this run "popular" as well. 50,000 kind of lends itself to that.
It is when the organizers of races that have no more than about three to four hundred finishers start calling themselves one of the more popular runs in their city. That, my friends, is called "spin." Which translates to: Don't drink the kool aid!
Actually, I left the hotel here in Vancouver, BC at about 1:55 a.m. Pacific and headed out for a cold-morning run. (I do have an early departure to the airport to come home.) Knowing that the forecast for Sunday morning in Alpharetta, Georgia is going to be 27 degrees, I figured it would be good to get a feel for what I needed to wear. (I had a long sleeve technical shirt with a pullover fleece-type piece. I may need to add one more light layer - dependent upon if this is any wind on Sunday.)
Weather.ca said that it was 32 degrees Farenheit and that it felt like -4 degrees Celsius or almost 25 degrees. When I finished my run and stepped inside of the 7-11, the clerk said, "Isn't it cold out?" I think we was surprised to see me in shorts and nothing on my head!
When I look at the numbers, it was a good run for me right now even though I felt like I was running in quicksand.
I was on this route and covered 6.39 miles (10.29 kilometers) in 1:07:39. Of course, all of the cyborgs playing along at home will know - without looking at the pace chart - that this was a pace of 10:35 per mile - on hills.
The way that my work schedule plays out it looks like I will be here for the 50,000-person Vancouver Sun Run 10K on Sunday, April 15. It is one of the top 10 runs in the world - if the metric that you're using for top is the number of finishers (which is what Running USA uses.)
You might even be able to call this run "popular" as well. 50,000 kind of lends itself to that.
It is when the organizers of races that have no more than about three to four hundred finishers start calling themselves one of the more popular runs in their city. That, my friends, is called "spin." Which translates to: Don't drink the kool aid!
posted by WalkSports.com | 5:39 AM
1 Comments:
Jon, you are funny! You can beat me any Friday. I work out with a personal trainer on my lunch hours on Fridays so you aren't likely to see a morning report from me on those days.
I did almost post early this morning though, to tell our buddy Rick that I had grilled salmon for dinner last night. I'm posting it here instead though.
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