4/17/12 (Tuesday) Run

Today I ran 9.60 miles in 1:12:49.  Today I ran north along Lake Michigan.  It was a beautiful morning, so nice that I wish I had time to do 20 miles.  The winds had greatly died down and there was barely a breeze nor a cloud in the sky.  It was great to see so many runners out; probably 100 or more.  This was my day to do interval work and the assignment was, after my warm-up mile, to do 5X1.25 mile intervals with a two minute recovery at 7.5 mph in-between each interval.  I was lacking confidence without the treadmill to push me, but pleasantly surprised myself, averaging around a 7:20 pace for those intervals.  Not as fast as I should have run it (7:00 pace) but still faster than I thought I would run and it was an important confidence builder for this Saturday's race.