Running with Joe

Posted January 19th, 2008.

10 miles. I haven’t run 10 miles in a while but today we did it. We ran this trail near my place (the trail I used for training for my San Diego R&R marathon) and it was such a nice day out. Not too hot, not too cold.

I realized something during this run, I don’t mind hills, and Joe does, and he likes to push to the limit, I don’t. During this 10 mile run, he made us sprint twice. Let me tell you, during a 10 mile run, a sprint anywhere inside of that 10 mile run changes things a lot. We are not talking about a 10% increase in speed, nor a 30% increase, this was an all-out, running from the po-po, sprint. I admit, the first one, not so bad, I could recover. The second one, it kicked my arse. Burned my reserve in about 20 seconds.

Overall, it was a great run. I actually felt like I could go another 5 miles until we did the second sprint, which wasn’t till about our last mile. So in terms of endurance, I am still ok.