Day 75: Movin’

From Me and the Road

Date: 3/16/10

Consecutive Days Run: 75

Runner: Brandon Wood

Shoes: Newton Gravitas

Location: New York, NY

Type of Run: Build Pace

Time of Day: 6:57 PM EST

Distance Run: 8.37 miles

Time Run: 00:58:42

Average Pace: 07:00 per mile

Weather Conditions: Cool (54 degrees Fahrenheit)

Disposition: Good

Link to Run Detail: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/27200527

About the Run: My assigned workouts for today included an easy, one hour spin as well as: Steady zone 2 only. Do not deviate relax good form. Fast light feet. However, I told Coach Jeff that I really felt like pushing it a little bit, to which he said I could do my scheduled workout for Thursday, which is: Warm up then run 55 minutes at your projected Ironman race pace. So, I went out the door with that in mind.

However, as I saw during my ride, the weather, after the past four days of utter gloom had blossomed into an amazingly gorgeous day, and now evening. So as soon as I began to run, I couldn’t hold my pace to my Ironman race pace (which is probably between 7:30 and 7:45 per minute), I needed to run faster. So I did!

The first mile, I took to warm up a bit at a 7:30 pace and then began to push it. My miles were as follows:

Mile 2: 7:03
Mile 3: 6:38
Mile 4: 6:50
Mile 5: 6:54
Mile 6: 7:15 (two NASTY hills here)
Mile 7: 6:52
Mile 8: 7:12 (cool down began here and went for the rest of the run)
Last .37 miles: 6:48

It hurt, but in that really good, I just put it out there, kind of way. Good times!