Neighbor-Man works for the newspaper so he keeps pretty strange hours (no judgement). And he told Ben that he only starting smoking as a way to cope with a divorce and it just sort of went downhill from there. Anyway, whenever I come home from working out or running he is surely standing there. Smoking. So of course I wave and say hello. And you know what he says?
"Hey, you just get done jogging or something?"
Jogging?!? Excuse me? Mr. Two-Packs a day?!? I'm a RUNNER! Hello! Do you see the 26.2 sticker on the back of my car? Or the awesome new Brooks Pure Cadence that I'm sporting? Or the fact that it's only 6:30 AM and I'm DONE with my workout already? Or that it is 2011 and jogging isn't even in anymore?!? Psht. I swear some people just don't get it. I just smiled and sarcastically said "Yes, I just got done jogggg-ing"
Anyway, that was after my awesome Wednesday morning workout. I met up with Coach Winterling and Natalie from PHCC's (national ranked!) cross country team at San Antonio Athletic Complex. The hills in San Antonio are well-known and no joke. Initially, we planned on doing 6-8 miles. Apparently that translates to 8.25 miles in reality. :) It was a really beautiful morning and we got to see ton of adorable houses, St. Leo University, and plenty of hills. Check out the elevation changes(!):
Split
|
Distance
|
Elevation Gain
|
Elevation Loss
|
Avg Pace
| |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | 1:15:21.0 | 8.25 | 328 | 323 | 9:14 | 7 | |||
| 1 | 1.00 | 23 | 45 | 9:25 | |||||
| 2 | 1.00 | 72 | 21 | 9:27 | |||||
| 3 | 1.00 | 0 | 31 | 9:06 | |||||
| 4 | 1.00 | 35 | 25 | 9:11 | |||||
| 5 | 1.00 | 82 | 65 | 9:21 | |||||
| 6 | 1.00 | 48 | 81 | 9:13 | |||||
| 7 | 1.00 | 18 | 0 | 9:03 | |||||
| 8 | 1.00 | 35 | 53 | 9:07 | |||||
| 9 | 0.25 | 14 | 0 | 9:13 |
Here is a photo of Natalie and Coach Winterling after the run that I stole from Coach (they look like they just went out for a casual run! Geeze!)
Monday Night: Bootcamp with Jenny. The 12 days of Christmas! 12-Burpees, 11-(Can't remember?), 10-Walking Lunges, 9-Run a Lap, 8-Bicycle Crunches, 7-Plank Walkups, 6-180 squats, 5-Skaters, 4-Pushups, 3-Squats, 2-Inverted Pushups, 1-Star Jump. Needless to say, I was sweating like nobody's business! It was an awesome workout (as always!)
Tuesday Night: Four Green Fields Run with Ben! I get really excited when I get to run with Ben these days, because it doesn't happen very often. I had the idea to do some intervals throughout the run, so we did a 1/2 mile interval, 3/4 mile interval, and a 1 mile interval with a warmup, cooldown, and resting interval in between. It turned out to be a pretty good 4 1/2 mile run. Here are our splits:
Split
|
Time
|
Distance
|
Avg Pace
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | 39:34.1 | 4.50 | 8:48 |
| 1 | 8:30.9 | 1.00 | 8:31 |
| 2 | 8:47.9 | 1.00 | 8:48 |
| 3 | 9:12.6 | 1.00 | 9:13 |
| 4 | 8:15.1 | 1.00 | 8:15 |
| 5 | 4:47.7 | 0.50 | 9:37 |
Wednesday Night: Jen's Birthday at the International Beer Garten. Everyone was trying to convince me to run the next day, but I was totally not feeling that come Thursday morning. But we still had a good time (as evident in the photo below):
Friday Morning: Ben is now officially off work so we decided that we were going to go for an "easy run" in our neighborhood in the morning. Here are the splits:
Split
|
Time
|
Distance
|
Avg Pace
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | 37:24.5 | 4.00 | 9:20 |
| 1 | 9:38.3 | 1.00 | 9:38 |
| 2 | 9:26.8 | 1.00 | 9:27 |
| 3 | 9:09.5 | 1.00 | 9:09 |
| 4 | 9:07.8 | 1.00 | 9:08 |
| 5 | :02.1 | 0.00 | 7:32 |
It occurred to me that a 9:20 pace used to be my race pace and now it's an easy run. What?!? Doesn't really sound like a jogging pace, right?!?
Happy Friday, y'all! :)
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