Bad Run Tuesday

Day 25
4 mile run at 9:57/mile

For whatever reason, we could not get into our groove this morning. The power outage yesterday threw a kink in the cosmos and I was late getting over to Christina's. Wade had to be to work early this morning, so we had to run even earlier and I, naturally, didn't go to bed until after midnight. And then when I went to put on my sock, I ripped the sore from yesterday on my toe. Josh has used up all the bandaids as stickers, so I couldn't find anything. Grrr....just one of those mornings.

Christina was feeling about the same way. We started off and did pretty okay the first mile, but I couldn't speed Christina up very much. I'd slow down to her pace and then try to push her back up to the 9:57 pace, but she wasn't budging. So, I gave up. At least we were out there. And even Christina the Machina deserves a bad day here and there.

By three miles, I was starting to struggle too. I'm glad it was only four miles. Our splits are not very impressive:

Mile 1: 10:02
Mile 2: 10:12
Mile 3: 10:22
Mile 4: 10:11

Our overall average was 10:12/mile, which is 15 seconds slower per mile than our target pace. Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but we never did find that sweet spot. We both agreed that had we been on our own, we would've just given up and gone home.

Oh well. You win some, you lose some.