Notes
---Second straight time on this loop that I didn't rip my shirt and cut my arm at the same spot. Now 2-for-4.---
Woke up later than I wanted to, so everything from there delayed the run. The plan was to get out the door by 7:15 a.m. and it ended up being 7:46 a.m. after the Garmin found its sensors (rather quick) and a brief stretch. I was slightly dreading it because I thought I was going to hurt. It actually never hurt. I felt pretty good for the most part. Unlike all of the other runs this month, my breathing was the best part while my legs were a tad bit heavy. Not too bad, but I was trying not to push it.
I will stop posting my quarter-mile and half-mile splits since I forget them most of the time anyway. But I came across the mile in 8:27 feeling pretty good. Thankfully with the slower-than-lately first mile, a PR would be out of the question. Well out of the question is a bad phrase, because I could have hammered it. But I guess not worrying about it would be better. The 8:27 might have been even slower except I stopped twice because of traffic at 0.78 miles (35th and El Cajon) and 0.92 miles (35th and Orange) as short while later.
I rolled down the hill on University before turning right on 33rd and facing that small uphill. I slowed down there considerably but got back into a rhythm. My final stop at 1.87 miles on 33rd and El Cajon, right next to Frazee Paints, killed that rhythm, although any kind of stop that isn’t a pussy stop I enjoy right now. I can pretend to complain, but breaks feel SO GOOD!!! There were probably eight or nine Mexicans waiting outside Frazee, looking for work. I crossed El Cajon and managed to dodge that tree that ripped my shirt and cut my right arm the first two times I ran it. Not today so that’s two straight times running it rip free. I hit the two-mile shortly after in 16:52, so an 8:25 (8:25.89) second mile. That’s my fastest second mile of the four times I’ve run it.
The third mile I closed in 8:30, probably a bit faster once I got to Adams. I hit the three-mile in 25:22 and finished six seconds later in 25:28.38.
Overall I was happy with the run. That’s four consecutive days for the first time since May 22-25, 2012. Hopefully I’ll get out tomorrow morning and beat the heat. Next few days are going to be hot.
Song: Cheeseburgers in Paradise (Jimmy Buffett)
Stops: 3 (0.78 (traffic), 0.92 (traffic), 1.87 (traffic))
Dry-Heaves: 0
Times on 35-33 (^ morning run)
^* 06/27/13 - 3.01 mi. in 25:28.38 (8:28 pace) - 8:27, 8:25 (16:52) & 8:30 (25:22); AHR: N/A/MHR: N/A; Weight - 195.6
* 06/18/13 - 3.00 mi. in 25:14.13 (8:25 pace) - 8:10, 8:34 (16:44) & 8:30 (25:14); AHR: N/A/MHR: N/A; Weight - 198.8
* 06/07/13 - 3.01 mi. in 25:22.88 (8:26 pace) - N/A; AHR: N/A/MHR: N/A; Weight - 198.0
* 06/03/13 - 3.00 mi. in 26:14.34 (8:45 pace) - 8:29, 8:53 (17:22) & 8:52 (26:14); AHR: N/A/MHR: N/A; Weight - 200.0
Past June 27th's
Today - 3.01 mi. in 25:28 (8:28 pace) at 7:46 a.m. in San Diego (Normal Heights: 35-33); AHR: N/A/MHR: N/A; Weight - 195.6
2012 - Did not run
2011 - 7.03 mi. in 51:31 (7:20 pace) at 8:06 p.m. in San Diego (Fashion Valley: Little Friar’s); AHR: 164/MHR: 182; Weight - 185.8
2010 - Did not run (left hamstring injury)
2009 - Did not run
2008 - Did not run (left achilles injury)
2007 - 5.36 mi. in 40:12 (7:30 pace) at 7:20 p.m. in San Diego (Fashion Valley: Louisiana + Big Block)
2006 - 6.02 mi. in 45:25 (7:33 pace) at 9:30 p.m. in San Diego (College Area: Random)
2005 - Did not run
2004 - 7.00 mi. in 48:55 (6:59 pace) at 11:35 a.m. in San Diego (Rancho Penesquitos Reserve)
2003 - Did not run
2002 - 9.28 mi. in 1:06:39 (7:11 pace) at 8:20 p.m. in Parishville (Chapel Hill Loop)
2001 - N/A
2000 - N/A