Run/Walk 2:1 Endurance Intervals

I think endurance training was a success today! I ran 5.9 miles before my knees and hamstrings started complaining and I stopped.

I completed 23 sets of 1-minute run and 2-minute walk intervals in 69 minutes. This means I was only running a third of the time, but I still managed to average an 11:41-minute mile! But as I've stated before, the objective is distance, not speed, and I am very happy with my 5.9 miles today.

Worse case scenario, I just do endurance intervals for my leg of the marathon relay...

Going the Distance

Wow. So, during my run this morning, I missed (or rather forgot) my landmark for turning back. I was mapping out so many different options this morning on Google maps that I just could not figure out where it was that I had planned to make the half-way point.

So, long story short, I ran almost twice as far as I was planning. 3 miles turned into 5.5 miles. It was a gorgeous morning for it though, despite the fact that my running partner, Baxter, had to stop on three different occasions to do his business. And a bug also flew into my eye.

Baxter in his run-with-Rachel backpack.

I was quite impressed that Baxter didn't slow me down as much as he usually does. But perhaps that's because I was slowing down too, the more I realized and became daunted by the fact that I had long missed my landmark.

I even forgot to stop my chronograph when I finally got back, but it took me about 55 to 60 minutes to run the 5.5 miles. Which means my mile average is somewhere between 10 and 10:54 minutes. Not too shabby for my first run in almost 3 weeks.

Pain Tracker:

• left hip joint was pinching at beginning of run
• right knee/thigh was tight mid run
• right heel felt bruised near end of run