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October 7, 2004

I'm a speed weenie

Well tonight was my first real "workout" since June. And yes the quotation marks are warranted. We did hilly half-mile repeats, and my plan to do six of them went out the window about half way up the first hill. "Don't overdo it on your first day back" I rationalized. "Don't get too tuckered out for your long run on Saturday." Oh whatever.

I worked pretty hard on the ones I did do and if I wasn't fast I was definitely consistent. Adding to the frustration was the fact that I'm a *horrible* downhill runner. Complete spaz. Remember the episode of "Friends" where Phoebe and Rachel go running? I'm Phoebe when I run downhill. I should just be glad I didn't fall down.

The group I ran with, Al's Ship of Fools, is incredibly social and we had a good old time. Tonight we were joined by none other than Greg McMillan. What a cool coincidence. I told him how happy I'd been to find that article last week about the "thirds" progression runs right after I'd done one. I did *not* tell him that I'd been finding the results of his "calculator" a little unsatisfactory lately. Maybe he can fix that for me. He's new to town and was just looking around for groups to run with and had no problem whatsoever running with a gang of midpackers. Last week he ran with the beginner group! Dude just wanted a workout.

6am is going to roll around awfully early tomorrow.

Posted by jenandmats at October 7, 2004 9:58 PM

Comments

It's definitely a good idea to ease into speed workouts. Judging by the name of the group you ran with they have a gran' ol' time. The social aspect is one of the best parts of running. How cool to be graced by a celeb!

Blondie

Posted by: Blondie at October 8, 2004 5:03 PM

I only met Greg briefly, but I can tell you he'd probably be *so* embarrassed to be called a celebrity. I tried very hard not to gush, but his web site has been really helpful to me the past few years ...

Posted by: jenandmats at October 9, 2004 3:35 PM