Week Six - Discovery Park

It's great running with friends when you can. This morning I went out to Discovery Park with Nari, Maggie, and Chris (though, Chris runs way too fast for me, so he humored the rest of us for about a mile and then took off...).

We ran somewhere between 7-8 miles all on trails - did the big loop that goes down to the water (by the sewer treatment plant, sadly) and then back up the hill to the small loop. Lots of fun, sweat and stairs.

Had my heart rate monitor on - said I stayed in my zone for about 45 minutes, with an avg heart rate of 158, max of 179. Total calories burned: 1900. Could that be right?

Either way, we were glad for the time change for sure...

Week Five - Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park was a lot of fun this week. I think I put in about 5-6 miles (ran for about an hour - maybe a little more). Lots of up and downs and varied terrain. Took my phone out a couple times and grabbed a few picks as well. I'm getting more and more excited about the thought of completing my
first ultra marathon for sure!



I'm gonna try and get some advice from my friend's husband, Justin Angle. He's a really good ultra marathoner, and I think he'll have some great tips for me, especially with respect to training and equipment.




I'm secretly hoping he might even be willing to pace me on a segment of the race or something cool like that.

Week Four - Alki Pavement

Had a good long run for week for with my friend Nari and one of her marathon buddies. We went about 7 miles, with about 5 of that on the nice *flat* running path along Alki Beach.

Looks like I'm running about 10 1/2 minute miles now on flat pavement. It would be nice to get that down to somewhere in the 9's before the big race...

We'll see I suppose...