Friday, April 08, 2005

Friday Night Buddy Run

I love running with a friend. It makes the time go by and is so motivating. Nony and I had a great run, venturing a little farther afield. I had tried to map out a 5 km run for us, but by the GPS, it looks like I fell a little short. Still, it was perfectly within the forty minutes we've alloted to start with. A little more challenging than last week, and I changed the intervals to three minutes running, seven walking.

We headed to Cresent Drive like last week, but then we headed down the monster stairway, then across the foot bridge to Prince's Island. Then toward the west end of the island before crossing over to the promenade, and heading back east to Centre Street bridge. Once we crossed that, it was back up to Cresent Drive and the finish line.

Nony had been staying dedicated, getting out a couple of more times since last Friday. And tonight she handled the increase in running time just fine. The first interval we kind of went at a little too hard, so we hung back a little more for the rest of the running intervals, and found a pace that seemed just right for her. Still doing better than I expected, and I'm proud of her.

Today's run:
Distance: 1.81 km. Time: 12:00. Speed: 9.1 kph.
Rest distance: 2.35 km. Rest time: 24:41.
Total distance: 4.16 km. Total time: 36:41.

Weather: Cloudy and 8C, and a brisk breeze out of the north.

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