Thursday, April 2, 2009

At the Back of the North Wind

After flipping my schedule around for the past few weeks—which included moving my pace runs from Saturday to Wednesday—I was excited to have a non-pace midweek run. Plus it was sunny and 50 degrees outside. Perfect. But I live in Michigan, and so there is always a catch. Yesterday’s catch came in the form of 40mph winds. That falls into the “tropical storm” category of Hurricane classifications.

Only runners would think, “low end of the tropical storm range, sunny, and warm, I’ll take it.” And, just because, I ran the quasi-hilly route (as oppose to the ‘Campus’ route with no major hills or the ‘running with the cows’ hilly route). Splits were good, going: 6:32 (hw*), 6:46, 7:06 (hw), 6:56, 6:41, 7:06, 7:03, 7:02, 7:06 (hw), 6:56 (hw).

Lastly, the foot felt fine except for a few awkward steps (typically hard left turns).


* hw = head wind

3 comments:

Sun Runner said...

Oh yeah, I was going to tell you, "watch out for the wind," as I was nearly thrown sideways by it whilst walking across the U of M campus yesterday evening...

Irish Cream said...

That is some crazy wind action! Way to go getting the run in despite less than ideal running conditions. Oh, and I'm glad to hear the foots feeling better! Keep taking good care of it ;)

Running and living said...

Glad the foot continues to feel good. Your splits are awesome! Ana-Maria