Saturday, August 22, 2009

20 miler

I should start by telling all three readers of this blog that I was slightly over-served last night.  Our neighborhood had its "Flamingo Friday" at the Pugh's.  It was a good time with a good turnout.  Turns out that new Bud Select 55 is pretty good and 6 of them are even better.  This choice would make my 20 miles interesting.

We started our Striders run Grays Lake at 7:00 a.m.  I started running with Curtis, Kristy (Feldman), and Nick.  Teresa was running as well...going for 18 miles.  

We got off to a late start  (maybe 2 minutes) but it put us in the back of the pack.  It was nice to pick people off as we went along.  As you can see from the chart below, my pace was all over the place as usual.

The pace started off in the mid 7:00s and stayed there through the rolling hills of the Des Moines Marathon.  We picked up Pete around mile 3 and he put the hammer down on the uphills.  I hope Feldman is okay today.  Her hamstring started to hurt, and I could tell she wasn't her normal killer self.

At mile six, Curtis, Feldman, and Pete headed back to Grays.  Nick and I kept on the course heading north towards Kingman.  At Kingman Nick left and ran straight home.  He had an AKL lunch deal in Ames.

So I decided to try and catch the front group of 4 and dropped the pace down.  I felt good as my pace dipped to the low 6:00 range.  It took about a mile to catch the 4 guys and learn that Bob has passed them...I had more work to do.

Bob could hear me coming because as I got faster, so did he.  It was fun chasing him through downtown Des Moines.  Eventually I asked him how long he would make me chase.  I think he was ready for a break too and we ran the last 2 miles back to Grays together.  Bob just did his first 50 miler this year...gave me some great advice.

After that I ran back to get Teresa.  She was doing great and we ran back to Grays together.  That's about it...when we got back to Grays again, I did two laps around the lake to total 20.  Teresa got to 18.

Great day for running. 

In case that wasn't enough info for you; here is more

Split
Time
Distance
Description



Calories

02:27:4020.10



2,379
100:08:011.00Curtis / Kristy / Nick


127
200:07:271.00Same


116
300:07:521.00Pete joins us


122
400:07:331.00Curtis / Kristy / Nick / Pete


119
500:08:151.00Same


121
600:08:021.00Me and Nick


120
700:08:171.00Me and Nick


118
800:07:501.00Same


120
900:07:071.00Just me


117
1000:06:211.00Chasing lead guys


115
1100:06:131.00Chasing Bob


115
1200:06:001.00Still chasing Bob


118
1300:06:501.00with Bob


118
1400:03:430.52Bob


61
1500:06:581.00Circle back to Teresa


114
1600:08:461.00w/ Teresa


119
1700:07:561.001/2 w/ Teresa 1/2  just me


116
1800:06:571.00around the lake


118
1900:06:481.00around the lake


118
2000:06:371.00once more around the lake


118
2100:03:570.58Done


69
I'm off to go boating with friends, and then a "back to school" picnic with old friends from the QC.

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