I noticed a few Saturdays ago that Sasha was looking for a running partner so I decided it might be fun to give him a shout out and see if he was interested in letting me run with him today. Our Schedules didn't quite workout since I needed to be home by 8:45 for babysitting duties and he didn't want to go earlier than 7:00. So This morning I woke up drove out to his house at 6:00 and ran the Provo River Trail up to University Ave and back by myself. I took it pretty easy cause I didn't know how bad Sasha was planning on beating me up. Met Sasha at 7:00 and went the other way on the trail out to the lake. He asked me if I was up for a 5 mile Tempo run, I said I was, so at 2 miles in we hit the trail and set off at sub 6:00/min pace. Felt harder than I thought it should from the start and about 2 miles into it he told me we were going to cut it short since I was dropping below 90 sec 1/4's. :( Turns out he was giving me a little fitness test so he could evaluate my fitness level. He wasn't to hard on me though and cut me a little slack since I was already 9 miles into the run when we started. When I asked him to run this Saturday I also asked him if he could go over my training and let me know what he thought, so we discussed his views on my running, I actually expected to hear most of what he said, basically I run my base miles to fast. I already knew that I suppose but just really enjoy running faster, I think it's cause usually I run alone and running faster keeps my mind occupied, if I'm running with someone else it's easier to slow down and just talk. So anyway, here are the things I got out of his advice. 1. Run base miles slower. 2. On tempo runs if I can't maintain sub 6:00 pace stop the tempo and jog. 3. No more short 6 mile runs. 4. I expected him to tell me I was too fat, he didn't seem to concerned that I weigh 25 lbs more than him and we are roughly the same height. 5. He did tell me I have a really efficient stride, which I kind of knew but it made me feel good to hear from someone else. Had a really great run this morning, thanks a lot Sasha for the advice. Oh! and the weather was perfect, really quite warm. Split the runs up, even though there was only a 10 minute break in between I felt it was really 2 seperate workouts.
| Distance | Time | Avg Pace
| | | | | 1 | 7:03 | 7:03 | | | | | 2 | 14:04 | 7:01 | | | | | 3 | 21:20 | 7:16 | | | | | 4 | 28:23 | 7:03 | | | | | 5 | 35:32 | 7:09 | | | | | 6 | 42:36 | 7:04 | | | | | 7 | 49:41 | 7:05 | | | | | Total | 49:41 | 7:05 | | | |
| Distance | Time | Avg Pace
| | | | | 1 | 7:43 | 7:43 | | | | | 2 | 15:21 | 7:38 | | | | | 3 | 21:09 | 5:48 | | | | | 4 | 27:16 | 6:07 | | | | | 5 | 33:48 | 6:32 | | | | | 6 | 42:19 | 8:31 | | | | | 7 | 50:39 | 8:20 | | | | | 8 | 57:59 | 7:20 | | | | | 9 | 1:05:43 | 7:44 | | | | | 10 | 1:13:41 | 7:58 | | | | | 11 | 1:23:31 | 9:50 |
| | | | Total | 1:23:31 | 7:35 | | | |
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