connect.garmin.com/activity/70631972
i went into work early this morning so i could have an extended lunch break and get out for a short two-wheeled excursion. the storm last night blew all sorts of grit onto the shoulders of the road, making me a bit nervous about flats, but i made it out to milan road and back without any deflating experiences. the wind was terribly hard to judge. i looked at the weatherbug and saw it was out of the northeast. the flag at the high school showed the same thing. three miles out of town, though, the flag at the top of mock hill was kind of wishy washy. couldn't tell for sure on east or west. i was already committed to riding east before i turned around, so i kept going. after i turned around, i slowed down a bit. my first 5.12 miles were at 17.2mph. the next dropped to 16.8mph. the wind was just enough in my face going west, that i was slowed down. grrrr! i had a great time out in the sun anyway, so who really cares? (10.25 miles @ 17.0mph)
Monday, February 28, 2011
3.01 miles in 25:23
connect.garmin.com/activity/70584553
after finishing up a fairly hard two-miler with jon, i decided to put in three more on my own. i took it a bit easier and threw in a little bit of speed work, sprinting all the northbound and southbound blocks. southbound i flew, hitting 6:09 pace at one point. northbound, i gutted it out into the nasty wind. the only good thing about sprinting north was spending a little less time doing it.
i did the same loop that jon and i had done earlier, adding in a northbound sprint in the middle of the last loop so i could end my run with a southbound sprint. my mama didn't raise no dummy! once i hit stop, i walked a bit to cool down and then came inside to warm up. doesn't make much sense, does it?
after finishing up a fairly hard two-miler with jon, i decided to put in three more on my own. i took it a bit easier and threw in a little bit of speed work, sprinting all the northbound and southbound blocks. southbound i flew, hitting 6:09 pace at one point. northbound, i gutted it out into the nasty wind. the only good thing about sprinting north was spending a little less time doing it.
i did the same loop that jon and i had done earlier, adding in a northbound sprint in the middle of the last loop so i could end my run with a southbound sprint. my mama didn't raise no dummy! once i hit stop, i walked a bit to cool down and then came inside to warm up. doesn't make much sense, does it?
2.02 miles in 16:07
connect.garmin.com/activity/70581797
my running partner, jon, was finally able to run with me again after a week off for other obligations. he picked an awful day to make his comeback. it was 27 degrees with a strong north wind. brrrrr!
since neither of us really wanted to deal with the north wind much, we decided to run east-west loops with only a block north every time around. it turned out that our loop was almost exactly a mile, somewhere around .96 or .97 miles. jon wanted to do 2 miles, we were pretty happy about the distance.
on the first loop we hit the mile mark at 8:12. on the second loop we picked up our speed a bit and ended with a 7:47 mile. the extra .02 we covered at 7:42 pace. our overall pace, 7:59, wasn't bad at all. i walked a bit to cool down and then decided to run another three miles. that's another post.
my running partner, jon, was finally able to run with me again after a week off for other obligations. he picked an awful day to make his comeback. it was 27 degrees with a strong north wind. brrrrr!
since neither of us really wanted to deal with the north wind much, we decided to run east-west loops with only a block north every time around. it turned out that our loop was almost exactly a mile, somewhere around .96 or .97 miles. jon wanted to do 2 miles, we were pretty happy about the distance.
on the first loop we hit the mile mark at 8:12. on the second loop we picked up our speed a bit and ended with a 7:47 mile. the extra .02 we covered at 7:42 pace. our overall pace, 7:59, wasn't bad at all. i walked a bit to cool down and then decided to run another three miles. that's another post.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
3.20 miles in 25:49
my wife came downstairs to run on the treadmill just as my daughter and i finished watching "master and commander: the far side of the world". my daughter didn't like it. to quote her: "everybody dies!" great movie!
anyway, since my wife was running on the treadmill, i got the okay to go outside and run. i called a friend quickly and asked her to cover for me for an hour on ems so i could get in a few miles. she agreed, of course. everyone on a volunteer service helps out when they can.
so i dressed quickly and hit the "mean" streets of argonia. i ran up and down, up and down, up and down and up and then across. i think i got that right. my garmin's battery was failing, so i resorted to google mapping and a stopwatch. felt like the good ole days! what a great way to finish off the week. rest tomorrow. back at in on monday!
anyway, since my wife was running on the treadmill, i got the okay to go outside and run. i called a friend quickly and asked her to cover for me for an hour on ems so i could get in a few miles. she agreed, of course. everyone on a volunteer service helps out when they can.
so i dressed quickly and hit the "mean" streets of argonia. i ran up and down, up and down, up and down and up and then across. i think i got that right. my garmin's battery was failing, so i resorted to google mapping and a stopwatch. felt like the good ole days! what a great way to finish off the week. rest tomorrow. back at in on monday!
Friday, February 25, 2011
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As I was working on my sermon today, I was reminded of a funny story. Fifteen or twenty years ago give or take a year or two, I was preaching on Jesus' prayer in John 17. I talked about how Jesus prayed for his disciples and then prayed for those who would believe through their witness. To make the message personal, I decided I would speak directly to some of those who were there that day, saying, "Mark, Jesus is praying for you!" or "Rachel, Jesus is praying for you!" It sounded great on paper. In practice it turned out to be a humorous disaster of sorts. I was preaching up a storm, encouraging specific people and then it happened. As I was turning my head, I thought of Bob and said, "Bob, Jesus is praying for you!" My eyes hit Bob. Bob was asleep. I'm sorry, but I laughed. Out loud! Bob's wife elbowed him. He woke up. I smiled and said, "I guess Bob was praying!" and went on. Made me chuckle to remember it today.
4.00 miles in 33:16
connect.garmin.com/activity/70041082
i went to work a little early this morning, so i'd be able to take a slightly longer lunch break. i was planning to ride, but decided to run instead. my aim was to run slowly and build speed each mile. i did okay, i guess. my first mile was 8:32. the second was 8:12. number 3 came in at 8:10. mile 4 was a bummer at 8:19. still not bad for my first attempt at this tempo thing. had a blast running on the dirt roads, so i'm good.
i went to work a little early this morning, so i'd be able to take a slightly longer lunch break. i was planning to ride, but decided to run instead. my aim was to run slowly and build speed each mile. i did okay, i guess. my first mile was 8:32. the second was 8:12. number 3 came in at 8:10. mile 4 was a bummer at 8:19. still not bad for my first attempt at this tempo thing. had a blast running on the dirt roads, so i'm good.
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