Shuck It

Yes, this is really on the side of the oyster bar/restaurant I run past

I debated whether or not to run last night. I already had over 10 miles for the week. But I wasn't going to be able to get a run in this weekend. I'm not really training for anything, but I do have a training plan printed out and propped up on my desk. I could do 3 or 4 miles, but would it make a difference. It had rained most of the morning, but now it was breezy and sunny.

In the end, I decided I would do 5 miles for a total of 15 and change for the week.

It wasn't a great 5 miles. I had to stop for traffic quite a bit. I was trying to do at least two miles around a 9 minute pace but that didn't happen. When you look at my stats over the week, my average pace slowly crept higher and higher. What do I have to do to get my average pace down from around 10:00 minutes per mile to closer to 9:00 minutes per mile? Seriously, my pace over the past 8 months has been fairly stagnant. Check it out:



That doesn't count any treadmill runs or runs where I forgot my Garmin

Do I need to do speed work? Tempo runs? Run more miles? Do more cross-training? Wait for the weather to change? Be patient? Just don't say hill work (Runners' World, I'm looking at you) cause we don't have any hills.

Or do I just say shuck it and accept my running for what it is?

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Stats

I don't have a clue what happened to that map. It does NOT look that on the actual Bones in Motion site.

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 628 ft Location: Forest Park, IL Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 08/20/09 Up/Downhill: [+101/-101] Time: 05:36 PM Difficulty: 2.4 / 5.0   Weather: Mostly Cloudy   75 F temp; 48% humidity   77 F heat index; winds W 17 G 29 Performance Distance: 5.25 miles Time: 0:52:55 Speed: 6.0 mph Pace: 10' 05 /mi Calories: 619 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)   Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 10' 32 +0' 27 5.7 -0.3 +4 ft 2 9' 58 -0' 07 6.0 +0.1 +14 ft 3 10' 41 +0' 36 5.6 -0.3 -3 ft 4 9' 21 -0' 44 6.4 +0.5 -3 ft 5 9' 45 -0' 20 6.2 +0.2 -13 ft end 9' 36 -0' 29 6.2 +0.3 +3 ft Versus average of 10' 05 min/mile

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