This Week's Workouts

Monday, 4/14 -- 40 minutes on the treadmill and 30 minutes on the stationery bike at Bally's in The Woodlands.
Tuesday, 4/15 -- 6.5 miles of steady running with a goal of trying to run as even paced as possible (at Knox Junior High in The Woodlands.)

Mile 1 -- 2:38.27, 2:41.95, 2:41.71, 2:42.65 (10:44.58; lane 2)
Mile 2 -- 2:42.57, 2:44.84, 2:44.69, 2:42.13 (10:54.23; lane 2)
Mile 3 -- 2:41.04, 2:41.96, 2:41.62, 2:41.75 (10:46.37; lane 2)
Mile 4 -- 2:42.40, 2:42.24, 2:42.99, 2:46.67 (10:54.30; lane 2)
Mile 5 -- 2:47.83, 2:48.29, 2:49.38, 2:49.99 (11:15.19; lane 4)
Mile 6 -- 2:49.08, 2:41.29, 2:46.77, 2:48.88 (11:06.02; lane 4)
Last 1/2 -- 2:29.32, 2:01.59

The times started to slow a little bit, but in reality I was running farther as I had to move to the outside lane as Bill's Woodlands Fit runners and Kim's triathletes were starting to take up lanes 1-2.

Two funny stories. First on the 2:41.29 in mile 6, there was somebody - who is regularly slower than me - starting to pull up to the left of me - in lane 2 - in the last 100 meters. I couldn't let that happen. :) Then, "group 4" started their last 800. I got to the line a little behind them. I was just going to follow them around for the entire half mile, but then I was motivated to see if I could pick them all off in their first of the two 400s. Well, I got all but three of them - and a nice 2:01.59 after 6.25 miles!

Why did I run these laps like this? I really need to try and run as evenly paced as possible during a marathon. As much as I hate running laps, I think I might start to run longer distances on the track to see if I can maintain this type of pacing.

Wednesday, 4/16 -- 55 minutes on the treadmill (4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 each for 10 minutes; 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1 and 6.1 for a minute each to finish it off)

Really thought about ending this at about 40 minutes, but once I got into the next mph range I really began to feel pretty good.