Last Saturday I ran 10 miles at Pineland and was pretty happy with my 10:22 min/mile pace. Today I ran 8 miles there at 9:42 min/mile pace. The difference - Danielle. She was doing 20 miles there to assess her plan to do the 50K. Most Monsters were going to be elsewhere and I decided to keep her company for the first 8. Rick and I had Sea Dog tickets and I wouldn't have time for more. Good thing cause I couldn't have kept up with her for any more! As it was, I told her to go ahead just after the 6 miles mark. I knew she wanted to keep me company, but I also knew she was testing herself and didn't want to hold her back. Maybe if Rick and I hadn't discovered that Gritty did pitchers the night before, I could have toughed it out a little better: ) I made it back to the parking area to see Danielle heading out for the 2nd part of the course. The Garmin said I only was at 7.5 so I headed back into the woods to get that last .5.
I had such a good time running with Danielle. Lots of talk on motherhood and running. It was also good to push myself a bit. After I let her go, I dropped back to 10:10 min/mile. Still a decent pace for me. All in all, I was really happy I decided to join her. I hope the run gave her the confidence to go for the 50k!
Lets see if I can add on the data from Chris's Garmin:
How does everyone make it look like their runs were in the Andes and mine look like they were in Kansas?
ReplyDeleteValerie, it was great to run with you yesterday! Thanks so much for keeping me company :-) And you were certainly not holding me back at all!!
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