Weekday Run

What?!?! A second blog entry for the day?!?! Eh, who cares.

Another lunchtime run with Tim. This time, I decided to push it a little bit and see what he could handle. Whoops! I shouldn't have done that, and now I feel bad for him. He pooped out around 3 miles and we ended up walking quite a bit. We started back up again a few times, but we walked more than I would have liked. In the end though we were only a few minutes slower than the last time around.

To his credit, he didn't stop to walk until after 5k.



Splits
Mile 1: 8:46.45
Mile 2: 9:36.43
Mile 3: 10:08.18
Mile 4: 13:46.72
Mile 5: 14:40.87
.34 mi: 6:00.28



5.34 miles, 1:02:59, 618 calories burned, 11:47/mi average pace.

Long run in the morning! 14 miles, my goal is to run about 9:30/mi the first half, 9:00/mi the second half.

Halloween 2008

It's a little late, I know. With my computer virtually unusable, I had to find the time at work to upload the pictures.

It was tough getting the kids to stay still long enough to take their pictures. No real trick or treating this year, I got home later than I expected to, so we just took them to the mall, then to Grandma's house. They still had a good time.


Grandma loved spending time with the kids on Halloween. She said there weren't many kids who came over for some reason.


Gregory's school had a little Halloween festival during the day, so they were able to paint his face up. He loved being Spider-Man. BTW, Gregory is 6 now.


Jenny's 4, and was dressed up as a princess. Of course.


Joy's 3, and dressed up as Thomas the Tank Engine. She's really into Thomas, which is nice, because Gregory isn't anymore. So she inherited most of his Thomas stuff.


They all went right to bed the minute we got home. Gregory insisted on sleeping with his makeup on, so most of it wore off on the pillow by the next morning. I didn't see him until I got back from my run, after which I was soaking wet. I told them it was my own Halloween costume.

I hope all of you had a Happy Halloween!

Word of Wisdom

Word of wisdom: after running a 30-minute mile, I realized listening to the Chariots of Fire theme while running isn't a good idea. :)

I just got back from my lunchtime run. Tim wanted to run with me, so I told him that's fine, but we're going 5.35 miles. I let him set the pace, and this time he actually kept to it, thank goodness. That boy can be worrisome...

Prior to running, it finally happened: my left big toenail came off. FINALLY! It first turned black on my first big hike last summer, back in June. 4 months, geez. :)

Anyway, our average pace was 11:29, but it was anything but systematic. He slowed down a lot at the end. We walked the last .35, he said he wanted to make it to 5 miles without stopping. I slowed down and at one point walked a bit to let him catch up.



Mile 1: 9:51.45
Mile 2: 10:46.37
Mile 3: 10:59.68
Mile 4: 11:20.33
Mile 5: 12:18.75
.35 mi: 6:13.51 (walking)



1:01.30, 663 calories burned, including the walk at the end. Average HR: 133.