Tuesday

Ugh, I've gotta stop partying so damn hard, this city is gonna be the end of me... :D Anyway, though I was out late last night partying with a Firefighter from Vancouver, and a Canadian MP, got home at 0430ish... Slept in most of the day, had it off from work, but I knew today was gonna be the day. So, up at the crack of 1430 (that's two thirty in the afternoon for you civis) start slamming water, because today was the long run day. I had a track that I was using for my bike rides, 7.25 miles, so today was the day I was going to run it. I figured a good time for the course would be 1 hour, but being hung over, I wasn't too sure how I would do, well, given that it would be a little over an 8 minute mile, which incidently I considered a workout to run 2 miles at that pace when I started a couple of months ago. Well, long story short, up, dressed, stretch, put on my country MP3s, and start out, nice little up hill, ugh, down to the water, running with about a 4-5mph breeze, and bright sun, so it was stifling hot, I wasn't going fast enough to generate wind, because it was blowing the direction I was running. Well, right at about mile 2.5 I turn and head back, and running into the breeze, wearing underarmour, really helped to regulate my body temp, and was a god send, my pace picked up, and my hr started dropping. I was running about 165-171 HR for most of the run, I realized I was past half, and finally got my stride right, everything was firing!!! Well, I ran from the hotel, to beacon hill park, down the coast to the end of the beach walk, then back up the coast past the heliport, and back into downtown, on my bike computer, it's 7.25, on my New Balance 719s, partially hung over, it's 58min 50secs, and I know I could of probably cut a couple of minutes off that, given crossing signals and all. That puts me on pace for 7.25 miles at 8min 6.9secs. I'm happy today, and will be sore tomorrow!!!