Monday: 0
My usual day off. I signed up for Little Rhody, which might be my only non-school race in the fall.
Tuesday: 6 Miles, Stonington Fun Run. Felt good and seeing that it was the last one of the year, I pushed the pace a little and had my fastest ever Stonington fun run at 19:53, which placed me third. A little rainy.
Wednesday: 6 Miles, Westerly Fun Run. Had an excellent first mile in 5:33, but really felt apart and mile 2 was 6:15. Mile 3 I picked it up again to 5:44. Certainly not one of my weakest efforts, but this was one where I planned to run a little faster and break 18. 18:35, tied for 4th. Felt really dead on cool down.
Thursday: 6 Miles, Woody Hill w/Dad.
Friday: 6 Miles, Groton Fun Run. Went hard and felt great the first two miles averaging 6:15 pace. Was leading at that point, but really felt apart mile 3 on the uphills. Really slow 3rd mile (6:48) resulting in Dad passing me. The last half mile I regained some energy and felt like I was gaining on Dad but didn't have enough distance to catch him back. Course PR though. I finished out my final fun run of the season (probably, unless I do the mile at Westerly on the 26th) with another weak effort (following Wednesday's). The 3rd mile was terrible, and I didn't do as well as I wanted to on Wednesday. Stonington was the exception though. I had a good run there.
Saturday: 3 in the evening with Dad. Run right after a meal, and I didn't feel good at all.
Sunday: 13. Very Happy with Today's runs. First Run was at 5:23 AM, because the low tide was around 4:30 in Weekapaug. I felt sleepy at first, but was really happy about getting up so early. Last Saturday's beach run was really fun and cool, because it was perfect low tide as we ran. I envisioned this run as being twice as great because it was earlier in the day and twice as long. Unfortunately, waiting an hour takes away a lot of the fun, and we missed running on the hard beach with water right below are feet. It was similar, but not quite as great, and there were a few sections with random soft sand next to the hard sand and water. However, the one thing I liked better about this run is how I felt and how I ran. Mile 1 and 2 were about setting the pace, and once I had done that I felt good and picked it up. I didn't want to full on sprint, but I kept picking it up until we got to watch hill. There are 5 beach segments from Watch Hill to Weekapaug. There's Ocean House to Misquamicut, Misquamicut to Ocean House, Misquamicut to Town Beach, Seaside to Town, and Charlie Stavros 3-Mile Beach Run Course. In this run I took the 1.8 mile Misquamicut to Ocean House segment at a very comfortable 6:16 pace, before wading in the water at Watch hill and waiting for Dad. The way back wasn't so great- even though I slowed to pace to run with Dad, I started to form blisters, get tired, and the tide was coming in. The last mile was hard- my blisters really hurt. I was glad to take a beach segment that had been there for a while (most of my segment CR's have 4 people on them). It's cool that all the CR's on the beach segments have been set by people I know. Dad has the ocean house to misquamicut at 5:57 pace (1.8 miles), I have the misquamicut to Ocean house at 6:16 pace (1.8 miles), Tom has the Misquamicut to Ocean beach segment at 6:43 pace (1.6 miles), Chris has the Stavros segment at 5:29 pace (2.9 miles), and Galoob has the Seaside to Town at 5:26 pace (1.4 miles). In all a great run.
Run #2 was a 3-miler with Dad. This was one of those rare week where I set a goal for myself. After many pathetic weeks in the mid-30s, I wanted to get back into the 40s again. So, my goal was 40 miles for this week, and I went out for the run to make it happen. A hot, slow run that I could feel my blisters on. Also, my last run before cross country starts.
Weekly Total: 40 Miles
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