Running 32:23 [3] 4.15 km (7:48 / km)
shoes: Brooks
It was about 38degF tonight. It is so much easier to run when it's above freezing. I wore the same thing I have been, and I was pretty sweaty when I finished. I wore some thin kevlar knit gloves, but I took them off for the last 10 minutes or so. (Yeah, I still haven't looked for my winter stuff.) I feel like a slug, because my primary motivation tonight was to try out my new toy. I bought a Garmin Forerunner 201, which is a GPS with the primary purpose of keeping track of your distance, time, and pace. Because I am an idiot, I set it up for metric units. It's cool to run faster than 10 min/km, until you realize how slow that is running on the road. I was struggling along at 8min/km, which I know is really slow. I'll do the math later. When I did a lot of running (by my standard) in the summer of 2004, I built up a base of this ultraslow running, mostly because I just couldn't get my leg speed any faster. After I got a very small base, I actually did a speed workout on a track, just so I could get over the leg-speed hump and actually run reasonable speeds. Right now my goals are just to get out there as much as possible. If I start to see some endurance building, I might throw in a leg speed workout (in a month or two, let's say). My four-month goal right now is the Raleigh ARDF Championships right after the Flying Pig A-Meet. I want to be able to run the whole time, and I want to be able to run fast for one minute on, four minutes off (running during the off, but not fast). I suppose I should read up on some training lingo, too...
P.S. I edited my distance down 200m. I started the instant the GPS locked, and somehow it locked 200m East of my actual position. It figured it out about a minute later, so there is an unexplained 200m skip in my track, that may or may not have been counted.