A Struggling 3.25 Mile Run is Better Than No Run – July 19, 2017
As I sit here now (12:19 pm) I see that the current temperature is 90 degrees and it’s very, very sunny. So I know that I made the right decision about running this morning. But it was a bit of a struggle to get out the door. The whiny, heat hating me said, “But it’s still going to be hot running, even though it’s 75 now. You know the sun is going to be hot!” The good me said “I know that so what I’m going to do is once again alter my course a little more to get a few more blocks of shade into the run!” The whiny me said “Okay you win!”
The Run….
So out the door I went with a slightly altered course that offered a little more shade than my last run. The course I had laid out was a four-mile, but I didn’t care if I made the whole four miles. I was ok through the first two miles, completing them both in 10:51. Then the wheels fell off the bus, and the sweat was pouring from my body! And that put my distance at whatever it was when I got back to my house. The course I had laid out, had a run around the park, and some more, to make it a full 4 mile run . I knew that wasn’t happening!
Without the extra distance the course ended up being 3.25 miles. which I finished in 36:01. My average average pace per mile was 11 minutes and 4 seconds. Typically, I would have tried to sprint to get my pace back under 11 minute per mile pace. But that was not the case today. What do they say “Discretion is the Better Part of Valor” I will live to run another day!
I decided that, like the other day, I would walk another 0.75 miles to make the total run/walk 4 miles. It wasn’t tpp long into my walk around Spring Garden Park that I stopped an said “Whoa!”
One of the largest and oldest trees in the park had been reduced to a stump!
Anyone care to count the rings?? I bet there’s close to 150 or so. The tree is probably as ol as the park!
The Results of the Run…..
Mile Splits: Mile 1 – 10:51 Mile 2: 10:51 Mile 3: 11:21 an 0.25 – 11:40 (out of gas on the last quarter-mile!
Total 3.25 Mile 36:01 – Average Pace 11:04 min per mile Average Heart Rate 142=3 bpm Calories Burned: 475
The Soundtrack for the Run Anu]bis – The Second Hand
Anu]bis is a Neo Prog progressive rock band from Australia. You can read about the album here at ProgArchives The band’s album Behind Our Eyes (Live 2014) was the soundtrack of a previous run. So I think it’s time for a review at FreeWheelin’ Music Safari.
