Saturday, April 25, 2009

Doug's First Four-miler - (931 total)

4.00 miles (Garmin link)
38:32
9:38 pace

Felt like the first day of summer today - it's now 85 degrees and muggy at 6:30pm. Our highs have been more in the fifties than sixties up till today.

Doug and I left the house about 9:00 this morning and biked down to the river path. Penn Relays runners and spectators were everywhere on the way down, converging on Franklin Field. We parked below Chestnut Street and ran out 2 miles - to the Girard Street bridge - and back. The warmer weather was tough on Doug, and we had to slow down to a trot to make it through mile 3. He took the last half mile at a full run, and again, I had trouble accelerating to keep up with him.

Rec path was crowded - the usual warm weather Saturday runners were joined by packs of Relay runners from all over the East. Saw runners from Duke and many different high schools.

1 comment:

Kathy said...

Congratulations to Doug on his first 4-miler! This is Dogwood Festival weekened here -- Art under the Elms on LCSC campus, Seaport River Run, Asotin County Fair. But our temps are rather cool.

Certainly admire your efforts to alter your form in order to improve your pain. I think it would be hard to alter form.