Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Short and Sweet

Today's run was short and somewhat sweet. We ran a short 3 miles up McBean in the shade from Peet's and back at a tempo pace. I wanted to push the pace to see what we were still capable of. During the last mile back, we were keeping up a brisk low 8 to high 7 min/mile pace. I was beginning to worry that these long, slow runs were making us into long, slow runners. Now that we are running the longer runs on the weekends, I thought it would be a good idea to work on some speed during the week when we keep our mileage low just to keep the heart rate up. The sweet part of the run was actually the post run coffee and pastries. Now that we all have our mornings back, it will be nice to run earlier in the mornings before the day heats up too much.

1 comment:

Patty said...

It was a "quick" run this morning! It didn't feel like we were running that fast but we couldn't keep up with Marathon Mom for sure. It felt a bit like a 5K.