Last Couple of Weeks

I've been pretty busy with another pump overhaul at the power plant.

53¼ miles for the week of May 26th through June 1st

M – 7½ miles, average pace 8:29, a sunny Memorial Day run, 87°F at 10:30AM [SeaC/NTrail-MBT/SeaC]
Tu – 5¾ miles, average pace 7:06 mpm, I’ve given up tempo runs for Summer, 82°F at 4AM [Dow/B-S]
W AM – 5¼ miles, average pace 7:37 mpm, 82°F at 4AM [Dow/Ol]
W PM – 5 miles, with some strides on the track, one mile of sprinting the straights and recovering on the curves, overall average pace 6:57 mpm, 83°F at 7PM [B’Wood track]
Th – 0, overslept, 77°F at 4AM, wouldn’t you know I missed a nice “cool” morning?
F - 10 miles, average pace 7:24 mpm, not a cloud in the sky and nice dry air with the dewpoint in the mid-60s!!, 85°F at 10:30AM [SeaC/NTrail-MBT-2M-MBT/SeaC]
Sa – 7½ miles, average pace 8:49 mpm, getting more humid, 89°F at Noon [SeaC/NTrail-MBT/SeaC]
Su – 12¼ miles average pace of 8:21 mpm, partly cloudy and humid, 87°F from 10:30AM [FWRes/MacL-2x(2M-MBTrail)/SeaC]



51¼ miles for the week of June 2nd through June 8th

M – 0, overslept again, 83°F at 4AM
Tu – 5¾ miles, average pace 7:12 mpm, 84°F at 4AM [Dow/B-S]
W AM – 5¾ miles, average pace 7:24 mpm, 84°F at 4AM [Dow/B-S]
W PM – 5 miles, with some strides on the track, one mile of sprinting the straights and recovering on the curves, as it’s gotten warmer my mile of sprints has gone from a 6:55 two weeks ago, to a 7:25 last week, to an 8:32 (ughh), overall average pace 7:09 mpm, 86°F at 7PM [B’Wood track]
Th – 4¾ miles, recovery run, average pace 8:59 mpm, 85°F at 4AM (a new worst 4AM temperature for this season) [Dow]
F - 10 miles, average pace 7:37, 88°F at 10AM [SeaC/NTrail-MBT-2M-MBT/SeaC]
Sa – 7½ miles, average pace 8:36, 88°F at 11AM [SeaC/NTrail-MBT/SeaC]
Su – 12½ miles, average pace of 8:12 mpm, sunny warm and humid - really broke down hard on this one, 87°F from 9AM [SeaC/ NTrail-MBT -2x(2M-MBTrail)/SeaC]


Friday, May 30th, was the highlight of these two weeks. The sea breeze was picking up again and it was already 85°F when I started this run at 10:30AM, but a northeast wind on Thursday left some wonderful “dry” air in place. In most of the country, 85°F with a dewpoint in the mid-60s would be considered warm and humid, but it felt wonderful to me. This 10-miler was pure joy. But I was back to sweat soaked shoes Sunday. I did make it below 180 this week for the first time in months. I'm probably dehydrated.

I ran across this video of Dave Wottle running the Olympic 800. He was one of my idols when I started running.



What a finish!