joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
5 miles today. Saw the middle school track team running my route and got future thoughts of possibly my girls running cross country. That would be really fun to train with them.
Oh I did the same thing! Um...except that my 1600s were @8:57 and I did 2 of them, not 3. So really not the same...haha!Today was 3x1600@5:51 w/400 RI. That particular workout is almost starting to feel normal. Almost.... I start dragging towards the end of mile 3, but after a 5 min cooldown, I feel great! I like seeing people still pushing their runs, even when they don't look at their watch. It's pretty cool when you can tell what your pace is just by feel, and then confirm it with the watch afterwards.
My watch has done that to me before trying to tell me that I'm running 5-minute miles.I went for a run this a.m.! My RunKeeper app went bizerck and said that I was running a 2 1/2 min mile! That's about 2 mph faster then the women's world record. Thanks run keeper! You know know how to make a girl feel good.
It was in the 40s here this morning! Yesterday high of 68...love it.4 miles this morning in 39:32. Third mile intervals. It was actually cold when I started!
5 miles today. Saw the middle school track team running my route and got future thoughts of possibly my girls running cross country. That would be really fun to train with them.
Dang.... when I saw this, my mind told me that you were starting a sentence off with Pretty Lights... the musician. Love that guy! Seen him live before. Great show.Pretty light mileage week. Taking it easy, and taking tomorrow off in preparation for my annual IBU 50 miler on Saturday. Basically a long training run along the beach. One of my pacers from the 500 mi will be joining me and a few others dropping in later in the run.
Back to hardcore trails training next week.
To conclude Elvis Week 2103, me and several other Elvis fans, some in costume, ran the Elvis Presley 5K Saturday morning. Race started and finished at the gates of Graceland. Still enjoying this break from the steamy 90+ temps that are usually in Memphis this time of year. Instead, had to put on a sweatshirt before the run as it was in the upper 60s. Run time temp around 70F. A little humid, the heat and humidity is returning by midweek I hear (another midnight run in the planning for 85F at 1am).
Ran the EP 5k in 31:58. Never run through the neighborhood before. Cooled the jets a little as Sunday I'm running in another 5K, the Bardog 5K, a Downtown Memphis pub just a few blocks from my apartment. Get to sleep in a little Sunday as race isn't until 9am. Helped a first-time runner get to the finish line. She felt like "tossing her lunch" and complained she didn't want to finish, but me and a military runner friend of mine let her take the lead, we cooled our jets and she paced us the rest of the way.
Elvis Week 2013's theme was Elvis in Hawaii and his Aloha Elvis 1973 TV performance, hence a lot of leis, Hawaiian shirts, gold sunglasses with porkchop sideburns, and Elvis tribute runners in jumpsuits. Was told by the couple in the last photo the jumpsuits provided no air circulation so they were very sweaty, just like I guess some runDisney runners who decided to run in some kind of Disney costume.
Finishers received a pretty hefty EP 5k finishers medal that spun! Felt just as heavy or just about like the 2012 Tower 10 miler finishers medal. The strap was actually plastic blue leis (second photo). They go all out.
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