3 Mile Run
Who: Coworker
What: 3 Mile Run
Where: Office Park
Noon run with a coworker. This was listed as a 3 mile pace run, but he’s slower than I am, so we did the first mile in the 8:40s (my fault), the second was more in the 9:30s, and the third was a bit more than 10. He has a 10 mile run in a few weeks, where he wants to run 11 minute miles.
It was more of a recovery run for me than a pace run, but it was a good exercise in modulating my pacing downward, and in fact somewhere in the second mile was the pace at which I really should be doing my longer runs to build proper endurance.
It was also refreshing to be reminded I actually am faster than many people. For some reason recently I’ve been around people and read things that made me feel slow.
2 Responses to “3 Mile Run”
shubbe - April 17, 2009
It’s always funny when you start to lose perspective. Austin is so fit, especially the circles I tend to find myself in, and I often feel slow and out of shape compared to the people I’m with. “Yeah, I did an Ironman, but it took me 13.5 hours. I suck.”
(Look, I logged in, just to make you happy.)
drw - April 17, 2009
It did! Keeps me from havin’ to admin the comment.
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