Saturday, September 19, 2009

It Must be Fall

I played tennis in high school. In Ohio, girls tennis is a fall sport; boys tennis is a spring sport. Anyway, I always knew how deep the season was getting not by how cold it was but by how windy it was. I had forgotten how windy fall can be until this week. I only had a few short run this week but boy it's been windy! This morning was no different. I headed out for a snappy run and the wind was pushing me around. The run was all based on heart rate and it was hard to control it when I was working so hard against the run. (Guess I better get used to this since I'm sure there will be A LOT of windy bike rides in my future.) I still had a really successful run hitting intervals at 7:44, 7:38, 7:41, and 7:31 paces. I looked at the schedule for next week and there's one more 20 miler looming. It's almost time....

2 comments:

Molly said...

Go go go Meredith!!! You're doing great!

GetBackJoJo said...

Great pacing on that run!
Hey! Your comment worked and came up on my site!
I have run 50+ in a a week like ONCE. I usually am between 35-40, and that's training for IM and marathon...
:)
I think when you first start training for IM the running miles need to come down a little to make room for all the new stuff; then they can come back up again later.