On Monday I participated in the virtual BAA Patriot's Day Mile, which seemed like a really sensible distance to tackle. Unless someone asked me to run it with impressive speed, and then I would take a hard pass.
That being said, I did manage to run the mile in 7:25 while giving a solid, if not breakneck effort (I just could not see the benefit of making myself puke from over doing it!)
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| It started sunny, and then poured on me.... TYPICAL! |
THEN, on Tuesday, I registered for October Boston and we'll see how that shakes down. People are flipping out that their 15 minute buffer won't be good enough, and I'm pretty sure they need to take a logical breath. I'm going to predict that the cut off will be 7:15 minutes better than qualifying pace, which is SUPER SUPER conservative, but I'm going with it. Let it be known, that is my official prediction.
The rest of the week was pretty normal as of late. A couple little runs. A big hike up the baldfaces.
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| Always a great hike |
Weather is everything from 28 degrees with a "real feel" of 10, because of the wind, to 72, sunny and SWARMS of black flies. Typical Maine crap. It does look like Spring now, for sure, and many things are well ahead of schedule (like, the ground is dry. flowers blooming. and, BUGS, as mentioned)
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| The grass is growing |
Two bikers won the challenge last week, and there's nothing a runner can do to chase people putting in solid bike mileage. While I did up my game and was well over the "required" number of miles, I'm sitting solidly in 6th.
However, I am the 1st place person out of the "on foot only" competitors, so it's not like I really have dissolved into puddles complete uselessness. I just can't keep up with normal mileage bikers, while running pretty low mileage.
Stats:
Miles run: 17
Hike: 9.5
Warmest day: 70 on Saturday
Coldest day: Low of 25 high of 38 Thursday with mega wind SUCK
Snow: NOPE
Bugs: YEP, black flies
Place in Challenge on Sunday night: 6th. My fate is sealed
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