Holla Bitches!
Booyakasha!
We have a seventh. A seventh great run!
It's like I was specially created, fashioned and programmed if you will, to exude greatness, in some form. Now obviously, seven great runs does not a Radcliffe make. But sources close to the athlete confirm she's totally reading this and shak'n in her knee highs.
Oh my slap down is going to be big!
I think last night was the mostest funnest run I have ever done with the group. There were about 80 of us show up in the park. But instead of our normal Thursday tempo run we did something entirely different. Our naturally tanned coach had us line up from slowest paced runner to fastest. Then we were paired up, so the slowest partnered with the fastest, then the next slowest with the next fastest and so on, until the last pairs would be virtually the same pace.
The route was a big 15 ish mile loop. At the starting point the faster partner went one way and the slower the other. Eventually somewhere along the route you will meet up with your partner, exchange bracelets, then head back exactly the way you came.
The fun part is that you have to get back in the same time in took you to reach your exchange point. The catch is you aren't allowed to use a watch. You have to gauge your pace. If you and your parnter do it correclty you should meet up at where you started at the same time.
In theory ... me and fast partner Dave were 48 seconds out. My fault, I could not contain the speed of my legs, it's like I am a running machine on auto pilot. Two sets of runners finish exactly at the same time.
It was so much fun here's why I liked it:
1. something completely different
2. as a slower runner always at the back you don't really feel part of the group once we all start running, but with this you do.
3. everyone is done around the same time, with 5 minutes of each other, so you get to cheer people in.
4. I pushed myself harder than normal
5. you are motivated to keep going not drop the pace, cause you have someone depending on you
6. you lose the distance time obession ... very liberating
7. it's exciting at the end to see how close or not so close everyone was
I'll stop at slevin!
That sounds like a lot of fun. I might try it with my running buddy.
Great job!!!Sounds like fun
oh wow! that sounds like a TON of fun! if i ever get to coach a team, i'm TOTALLY doing that with them.
great job on seven in a row, ali. you are a machine!
Oooooh, that does sound like a fun run! I'll have to put that one in the "bank" for marathon training next year. :)