Training Log Archive: RLShadow

Short run around the "big block" with Hanna, before the forecast rain comes.

Feast of Burden 5-mile race, hosted by Medved, starting from the War Memorial. Out and back course to the U of R campus. I guess it's an accomplishment to get out and run at all on a rather frigid day (near-zero with the wind chill). Other than that, it was a pretty bad race for me. I had to walk a bit at the turn-around, and then roughly every half mile after that. Started running with trailsnail, until the turn-around, where she passed me and we never crossed paths again. She commented that it was the first time she's beaten me in a race! And not by a little, by about 1.5 minutes. I know I run worse in the cold than in more mild temperatures (say, 50-60), and being bundled up also doesn't help. Last year I averaged 9:10 per mile in this race, and this year, nearly a minute a mile slower. Can't blame that all on the weather!

With trailsnail. I was pushing the pace a little more than usual, but still going rather slow by any realistic standards. Last run before the Thanksgiving Day race (5-miler from the War Memorial).