Fastest Cross Rd Run

Just finished my fastest Cross Rd run to date - 10:50 min/mile. I must of been the man who honked at me and pissed me off! Taking tomorrow off to spend the day with DC friends up on Mt Washington.
Later!

Slowpoke

Ok, I'm slow! I finished my group run today with the runner's alley group. Nice, slow 3 miles, at a 12 min/mile pace. I think I may be the slowest person in the group! I just can't seem to run any faster!

On the bright side, no pain in my knee today. I was a bit worried yesterday beacuse I woke up in pain Friday morning. I iced it at work and elevated it for a couple hours - took some aleve. It seems to have worked!

Saunders at Rye Harbor Run

My knee! I haven't had knee pain in months and its back. L, her husband, and I ran the Saunders 10k route today as a practice for next weeks race. It's a beautiful course through Rye, NH and Rye Harbor. I finished 6.1 miles (we cheated a bit) in 1:15. By mile 4, my left knee started aching - not good. I've iced it and stretched. Used the stick - we'll see how it is tomorrow. I haven't been this tired in a long time!

It should be a fun race!

Wednesday Easy Run

Did 2.6 today. First Run since Saturday's group run. I had a horrible cold since Sunday - I couldn't breathe! I'm still pretty snotty - so I took it easy with a 2.6 @ 11:35 pace.

Bought a Timex Sleek today to replace my old Casio. It's a sweet little watch. I still need to figure out all the functions! After much research, I decided this one had all the bells I wanted (interval timers, countdown timers, and alarms) and still looked good enough for everyday wear.

Sick

I thought I had bad allergies - but no, it's a full blown COLD - in AUGUST! When Matt came down with it, I knew it was actually a cold....a very snotty cold. I lost my voice on Saturday night and it's still gone. I missed my sunday run, and I'm taking today off too. I took a sick day and slept 4 hours this afternoon.

I missed my group run - but I figured I should get better, rather than run my miles. I think I may be able to get on the road tomorrow!

Seacoast Half Marathon Group

So I am still running!

I haven't been blogging much, but I'm still running! I took my craze to a new level this week by signing up for the Runner's Alley Seacoast Half Marathon Group. This is a 14-week training group to gear beginner runners to run their first 1/2 marathon.

Here's the schedule:
Sa - Group Long run (starting at 3 miles and increasing to 12 miles)
Sun - Easy Run (2-4 miles)
Mon - OFF
Tuesday - Group Run (3-7 miles)
Wednesday - XT
Thursday - Easy Run (2-4 miles)
Friday - XT or Easy Run

Not too tough. I've been running 4 miles once a week and 3 milers twice a week, so this should be pretty easy. Yeah right! I'm going to move from 10 miles to nearly 30 miles a week over the next 3 months. I'll try to keep up!

Portsmouth Harbor 5k

So I finished my second 5k!

I was hoping that the hill work I had been doing would help my running, but I have NOT been heat training! It was almost 85 by the end of the race - way too hot for me. I walked a good 5 minutes of the race and still knocked nearly a minute off my time! I had a great first mile, but the 1st water stop was out of cups! I grabbed some water from Matt who was at mile 1.5 and then some more at mile 2. After that, I thought I was going to melt!

After I pasted Matt a nun in full habit running with a group of 4-8 year olds pasted me! I was pasted by a nun and a 4 year old. I learned later, that the nun and the kids are from St. Charles School and the kids run 4 miles a day, 5 days a week! They were great! They all beat me!

Anyway, we ran along the river and of course it was low tide! It smelt like dead fish! The last uphill, I had to walk. It was open, sweltering and no wind! I did finish though in 35:38 (a 11:28 pace) I was 116 of 130 F2029. Onto the next 10k August 16th!