With the weather warming up this past week, running has been great. I’m sure that the temperature will cool back down and there will be more snow to come, but the great footing this week has shown me that my cross training has paid dividends. The last 4 days were a 10.5 miler where I averaged just over 6 minute pace, an easy 5 x mile repeat workout slightly slower than marathon pace, a 10 miler at 5:54 pace, and the week was capped off with an 8 x 800 workout. It was extraordinarily windy out yesterday and I ran the 800s through our parking lot with my roommate Kyle Johnson. Since I haven’t run workouts in quite some time, I actually wanted to lead to get back to pacing and Kyle stuck on me for every repeat. Our rest was consistent and was just under 0.25 miles in 1:41-1:45. I really didn’t know what to expect from this workout, but we hoped to run 2:20-2:25 and that was before we knew that we were going to be running in the wind. I was somewhat surprised by how well we were able to run as we split 2:16, 2:21, 2:20, 2:22, 2:21, 2:20, 2:21, 2:17. I never once even thought of my hip/back pain throughout the workout which is a great sign that my hip is 100% healed. I really didn’t know what to expect from this spring season, but I think running PR’s should be a realistic goal. On a side note, if Kyle can stay healthy this spring, I do think we’ll see some substantial PR’s. My race schedule is beginning to take shape and I will post it in the near future. Happy running!
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