AM Workout:
KEY WORKOUT: 8 Mile Zone 2 Intense Aerobic Run
Course: Boardwalk (flat)
Total Time: 1:03:57 (slightly less than 8:00 min/mile)
Weather: Light Rain, 45F, Moderate Winds
If you looked my schedule at the beginning of the week, it mentioned that I was supposed to do a hillier course (Victory East) than what I did today. True, but here's where "it's a long story" comes in.
First, I decided late last night that I wanted to get a trail run in before the government steps in and robs my morning daylight from me this weekend (Daylight Savings Time switch over). OK, fine then. I drive on over to the extremely hilly Greenbelt Blue Trail entrance, park my car, and start running. About 2 minutes into the run, the watch dies on me. I train on trails a different way, I go by time instead of distance, because it is not easy to measure a trail. I use Gmaps Pedometer to measure the roads; that tool doesn't work on trails. Since my "time indicator", my watch, died, there is no way for me to know when to turn around, so I walked back to the car, defeated.
That was when the idea for running on the Boardwalk dawned on me. It was only a 5 minute drive from where I was to the Boardwalk, and I already had the course measured. All I had to do is start the stopwatch on my cell phone, leave the phone in the car, run the 8 miles, then turn it off when I finished.
It worked like a charm. I got my hard 8 miles in, and I'm a happy man once again. And even happier since my pace was under 8 minutes per mile again. The weather was deteriorating as the run progressed, but not much to affect my pacing or my time.
I might or might not do a second run tonight. I'll decide on it when the day progresses.
(Key Workout 3 of 4 done).
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