Week 6 (August 18 - August 24): Mileage up! Feeling good:)

This week I pretty much ran the paces a.k.a. I was pretty much mentally on auto-pilot.
Tuesday was pretty short overall.  Our training group went to the local high school track at Clovis North and ran a 1-2 mile warm-up around the track at an easy peasy pace:)

Sun was down by the time Coach John had us line up for the goal of today's practice --> recording our 1st timed mile of the training season.  This was mainly to get something timed and down on the books so that we can see our improvement when we do this timed mile again later in the season...joy hehe.

I was, however, looking forward to running a marathoner's version of a sprint:) during practice and seeing what I would clock my mile time in...my last official time being 6:59 (min:sec) in high school um....18 years ago omg...why did I calculate that?!

And the cool dark of night made it more fun since the sun was going to beating down on us and dripping sunscreen sweat in my eyes while I tried to do my best.

The result --> 8:32 (min:sec) mile...whoo hoo!  I'll admit I didn't run it all out 'cause I didn't want my heart to explode or feel nauseous but I did run it as fast I felt my body could handle:D  Yay one and done!

1-2 mile cool down around the track after waiting for other running groups to do their exercise and shortest Tuesday workout ever!  (1/2 marathon training group has now started their training for the 2 cities HALF and the purple Team in Training group was also out sharing the track).  It was great to see runners of all levels - motivation:)

Just for perspective - our fastest runner JW ran his mile in 5:07 - Insane!!! *sigh* some people just have in the genes I say...

Ooh one shout out to myself - ran 12 miles for the long run!!!  Shout out because schedule-wise and mental-wise, was totally prepped for running 10 miles but due to a fluke of substitute coaches this weekend....we did an extra 2 mile warm-up hehe.  (Coach John was out running yet another 1/2 - the man is a running machine!)

 Additionally it's the longest distance I've run since the Chicago marathon last October...go Ann!


Question of the week -->  What's your personal best mile time?  (Perfectly fine to use your all-time best 'cause YOU did it!)

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Run stats:

WEEK6		Mileage	Duration (hr:min:sec)	Pace (min/mile)
Mon	26-Aug	rest	n/a	n/a
Tues	27-Aug	1.10*	0:8:49	7:59
Wed	28-Aug	rest	n/a	n/a
Thurs	29-Aug	5.25	n/a	10:54
Sat	31-Aug	12.32	2:32:56	12:23
Total weekly mileage  *1st timed mile of the season (actual total ~2-3 miles including warm up and cool down.		18.67 miles