Some October updates....

Saturday, October 1st - off/rest day with a 1.77mile walk with Molly!

Sunday, October 2nd - Half Marathon Day!
I signed up for this as a training run, but because the 10mile race was cancelled, this turned into a great practice to see where I am for the marathon at the end of the month.
Official results -
1:48.36 - PR by 1min 17sec!!
451st out of 2488 runners
118th women out of 1335
21st in my division out of 250
Average pace of 8:17
10k split was 51:35.

From my watch -
Mile 1 - 8:11.1
Mile 2 - 8:19.0
Mile 3 - 8:02.4
Mile 4 - 8:02.4
Mile 5 - 8:09.6
Mile 6 - 8:13.8
Mile 7 - 8:13.9
Mile 8 - 8:18.8 - Started up and down hills for the next ~3 miles. Not fun!
Mile 9 - 8:23.5
Mile 10 - 8:24.8
Mile 11 - 8:32.8
Mile 12 - 8:23.2
Mile 13 - 8:03.7
0.1miles @ 7:06.5

This would put my time at 1:48.03, but my watch was off my 0.08miles (pace of 6:56.6)
I am very happy with this. The hills really killed me towards the end. Thankfully, the second half of the marathon is flat!

Monday, October 3rd - off/rest/recovery day. We did take Molly for a 0.68mile walk.

Tuesday, October 4th - Back at it!
1mile @ 8:45 - 8:53.0
4miles @ 8:15 - 8:17.3, 8:18.0, 8:09.0, 8:08.5 - legs were really tired.
1mile @ 8:45 - 8:36.1

Not too shabby!

Wednesday is a cross training day. Thursday more running. Friday rest day. Saturday - 20miles!!
Fun times!
Enjoy!
ELH