Saturday morning June 6th 2009...

Saturday morning:

I have fallen quite behind on my journal entries over the last week so heres my last run on 6.12.09 up in Barrington Hills Illinois. Our Fast Track Racing Team meets here every Saturday morning throughout the year for various distance runs in the rolling hills just NW of Barrington high school. This was the first time I ran this course and everyone was running 12.5 miles today so of course I followed suit...

Grace was kind enough to hang back with me throughout this new challenging hilly course at my pacing. My last longest run was the Indy Indy half in early May so I was already getting out of running shape as I dial in my cycling for the summertime racing challenges. Anyways we were the last ones to finish in 1:44:27 for 12.5 miles which is an average mile pace of 8:21 which was pushing it for myself this early, beautiful morning. Average HR was at 135bpm with a max on a climb of 151bpm...

I think I have found a nice new mid-distance group to run with as an alternative to running at the lakefront on Saturday mornings :-)

b