my eldest daughter, freed up from afternoon volleyball practices, is now ready to train for this weekend's race. she stopped by my office and asked me to run with her. i was ready to go, so i grabbed my stuff and headed home.
we both got ready and then headed out the door just as my wife was getting home from work. she and our youngest decided to go on a bike ride while we were out.
we started out at a pretty good pace despite the strong north headwind we encountered right away. turning west we discovered that the wind was a norwester (i made that up) so we had to deal with a head on blast for a bit longer. we did the little jog north and west just past the school then headed south.
the going was easier when we were going south or east the rest of the way around town. thankfully there weren't too many sections of westward or northward trekking.
i checked our time at what i thought was the two mile mark and thought we were going much slower than we actually were. i had us over a 9'00" pace. boy, was i wrong. i was off by almost a block on where to check. i'll know better next time.
so we made it back around to the park and my daughter took off sprinting. since i had already had a hard run this morning, i didn't want to push too much so i just watched her run away. i kept up enough to see her finish about 21 seconds ahead of me. her pace for the run was 8'29:. mine was 8'36". i'm happy that an easy run is now at that pace. that means my pushing it pace will be much more than i need to beat the skinny kid again on sunday.
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