This morning I woke up and jogged 3.4 miles down to the Salt Lake Running Company for a group run. Unlike last week’s really tough 10-mile stress-test with BJ, I just did not have the speed today. As a result, I ran to Liberty Park and completed four-and-a-half laps before returning to the store. I completed this 10 miler in a time of 1:09:50; that is an average pace of 6:59. My splits were as follows: 7:07, 7:01, 7:05, 7:18, 7:03, 6:47, 7:05, 7:07, 6:51, and 6:23.
In short, my effort level felt like a 6:30 pace, but I was running close to a 7:00 pace. However, it was awesome to see all of the SLC-half-marathon-in-training runners that made it out for the workout! There seemed like there was 200 of them and when running back to the store down 600 East, I felt like I was running in a race since there were so many of them. It’s really neat and motivating to see so many people pushing themselves on a Saturday morning! Also, the SLRC informed me of the great news in that they will be able to supply the bags for our Fight for Air Climb race, which totally made my day!!!
After, jogging 3.4 miles back to home I ran 1.5 miles over to the store and back to pick up some groceries before calling it day. Really, besides my non-running workout, I just read the latest edition of Running Times and slept all day. I needed a day like today.
Thinking about my non-running workout, I completed 300 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, and a 100-second wall-sit.
5-minute Plank Challenge: 2:00 (again, keeping it at two until next week)
Trying-To-Go-Out-Of-My-Way-To-Eat-Healthy Daily Challenge: two Naked fruit smoothies, whole-wheat pancakes, whole-wheat pasta with a tuna white sauce
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