Dogless Run

3 miles in 27:42 (9:14/mile) (ran this yesterday; monday)

This was a nice slow, reverse limbo run. I got progressively slower. It was frustrating, I thought I was doing a good job holding my pace after the first mile, and dropped 20 seconds. Something to work on, I suppose. I'll just take it as a nice taper for the 10K on Friday. :) I suspect that I'm not going to be setting records for that race, especially since I'm wearing my LS dri-fit to cover up the rash on my right arm

Felt really heavy as I went out. I'm sure I'm just not at 100%, and that's it. Pretty comfortable running at 9pm. Temp was down to 65ish. Much better than the hellish temps Laura put up with when she ran Seafair.

I had a thought about a question/comment Lisa over at i'm a runner? had. (A few weeks ago, now, probably.). I felt really odd warming up on my first race too. One was feeling self conscious, like I was a 'baby runner' and shouldn't be playing like a 'real' runner. The other was that honestly, that warming up would add length to a run that was already longer than any run I had done to date. I just didn't feel like I had any more miles in my tank than the race length. I've started doing something to warm up before the rest of my races though. Some is a better feel for my body, and what I have, and some is the fact that I've got more distance in the 'bank'.

splits:
mile1- 9:00
mile2- 9:18
mile3- 9:25