Saturday, January 15, 2011

Snow. Wind. Done.

My training plan called for a long, slow 10k today....and it's a good thing. We've had our share of snow lately (a lot for Windsor, anyway), and just got another dusting last night. This made for some slushy, snow-covered roads and sidewalks, and made for a bit of a more difficult run today. At some points, I felt like a deer - high-stepping it through the fields. Hopefully no one who saw me would describe my running style as 'prancing', but that's kinda what it felt like.

I tried to pace myself around a 6:00min/km, and overall was just a hair slow, finishing my 10k in 1:01:32. Not too bad, considering the last half of my run was directly into one of the more fierce, blasts of wind I've cared to be out in for a while.

Anyway, not much else to say about today's run, other than I'm glad I got out there. When I woke up, I looked outside and immediately tried to think of excuses why not to go, but as usual, now that I'm done, I'm glad I did. I would have kicked myself all day if I just sat around and hid from the effort.

For posterity's sake, here's my stats from my Garmin:


Split
Time
Distance
Avg Pace
Summary01:04:3810.3206:15
100:05:411.0005:41
200:05:441.0005:44
300:06:081.0006:08
400:06:001.0006:00
500:06:241.0006:24
600:06:221.0006:22
700:06:231.0006:23
800:06:181.0006:18
900:06:141.0006:14
1000:06:121.0006:12
1100:03:060.3209:45

2 comments:

  1. Wow! You're fast! I'm a pretty sluggish runner, but I'm working on getting faster. Thanks for following my blog. I'll follow you as you train. Keep up the good work!

    Matt

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