Competitor.com shared some of the best signs from the 2017 Boston Marathon earlier this week. Here are my favorite 18 signs:
On Sunday evening, I Instagrammed this photo:
Last week, I did my first real speed work in many months. I went out for a simple 2x2 mile interval run. I figured it was a good hard effort run without TOO much quick/sharp speed 2.5 weeks before my first duathlon of the year.
My first interval had nice descending 1/2 mile splits mainly because this was the first hard running I'd done in a while and I wasn't sure what I could do:
- 2:59.40, 2:56.70, 2:53.73, 2:49.10 = 11:38.93
And as I started my final interval (after 3:00 of walking), I told myself that I was NOT going to descend this one - I just wanted to run it HARD all the way through. And the splits look like that: they look a bit like a race where I start a bit harder, slow up a little, and then push to the finish:
- 2:51.19, 2:53.77, 2:50.87, 2:48.66 = 11:24.49
After my workout, I tweeted about it, and Coach Jen started tweeting back. (She was the one to first give me this workout nearly 7 years ago.) Here was our conversation over the course of a few hours:
- First time with Coach Jen (flat by my parents farm) in 11:48 and 11:34.
- A year later in 11:26 and 11:38.
- PUSHING HENRY in the stroller in 11:36 and 11:37.
- Pushing bigger Henry in the stroller in 11:46 and 11:42.
I'll have some good news in a training update shortly. In the meantime, this past week was Henry's first spring break. We had some fun. Here are 15 quick family pics:
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