The Life Of Riley

Changing it up this week.  I'm backing off on quantity and I'm concentrating on quality (speed). Got in 5 short miles today, the first 4.5 @ 7:34 AP and then ahalf mile cool down run into the neighborhood.  I'm going to just go for 5-6 miles each night but increase my pace to the mid 7's and see if I can then maintain that speed tacking on more miles in the weeks to come.  I would like to get my half marathon pace down to 7:10's by SLCM.  We will see if I can do it.

Oh Tony...  I purchased P90X today for me and my wife.  I have decided to mix up my training and add in some woorkouts besides running.  Started out tonight with a 60 min plymoterics workout, whoa, that was new to my body, and then did a two mile easy run to stay warm while Court went to pick up the girls from dance and then we did the 16 min ab burner workout, and again, whoa.  Ended up getting in a 95 minute workout and we will see how I feel tomorrow.

The course was at least a tenth short, maybe even two tenths.  Garmin readings were from 6 miles to 6.1 miles.  I was happy with outcome anyways, I finished 1st in my age group, which I have never done before and 15th overall.  I had a much better pace then I thought I could get and I had a great time.  I went over with Tyler who smoked the course.  He was 4th overall and 1st in his AG.  I have never raced a 10k but as much fun as this was I think I will fit a few in this spring.