Fun 25

Minutes ... not miles! Mina and I did another 25 minute run today on the Rec Path. This time we ran down Fishermans Wharf and Cannery Row. It was a great run. I thought we were going at a pretty good clip during the run.

She is nervous about being able to do this run by herself for the next week and a half. I think she'll do fine. It will be much more challenging. It is definitely easier to run with someone. It makes the time go faster. I'm sure she'll be fine.

We walked and ran 2.79 miles in 35:00.

Sunday LSD

We did a nice long run Sunday. We ran from the house out to Pacific Grove Lover's Point and back again, a little more than 10 miles. It was a really good run, although I was a bit tired. We tried running with the running water bottle. It wasn't bad. The strap was much better than just running with a bottle.

Bill's ankle started bothering him around mile 7.5, even though he didn't say anything until we got home. We are rethinking our decision to do the Wine Vine Run in Paso Robles the weekend before the Big Sur Half. I really hope it isn't a serious injury.

We ran 10.05 miles in 1:49:00 for an average pace of 10:50. Bill's Garmin was tracking along with my Runkeeper for most of the run.

I've created a monster

Crazy! Today's run was supposed to be an 8 run, 3 walk, 5 run, 3 walk, 8 run. Mina said that 8 minutes is "too short" (!) and wanted to do more. She said maybe the 10/3/10 would be better. Then she scanned ahead in the program and decided to try 25 minutes. I told her that if she had to take a walk break that it would be fine. We would go at her pace. Of course, she rocked it! No problem. The end was downhill, so I asked if she wanted to sprint for the last 30 seconds. I let her set the pace. Then the program dinged that the 25 minutes was up and she said, "We're done? That's it? That wasn't too bad!" AWESOME! I'm so proud of her.

We walked and ran 2.73 miles in 35 minutes for an average pace of 12:49. I think the run was in the 10 to 11 minute pace. Great!

The moon and stars are aligning

I went for my interview at Fleet Feet yesterday and got the job! Two days a week, which is perfect! In other news, the guy at the car stereo place is going to buy the truck. So things are happening. Good things, that is.

Twenty minutes straight!

I remember when I was there back in May 2010. I was really nervous about running 20 minutes straight, especially since the most I had done in the program was 8 minutes. This day (W5D3) is the mental day. Once you cross this hump, you can do anything! Well, Mina rocked this run! She ran it with no trouble and no walk breaks. When we started I told her that if she needed to stop it was OK. I am so proud of her!

Next time we go back and do shorter runs with a walk break. I think she is going to want to run long instead. We did 2.21 miles in 30:00 for an average pace of 13:34.