Wow, Sunday morning and we're feeling the afteraffects of the Autumn Breeze Run we participated in yesterday morning. The Autumn Breeze is a traditional late season run in Shreveport consisting of a 5K and a 10K run through the neighborhood streets of South Highland from Broadmoor Baptist Church. Turned out to be a good day out there...Jonnene set a new personal record for the 5K (3.1 miles) with an official 26:13 time. What makes it interesting is that she wasn't really trying for a PR and hadn't put in the training for the run. She was pretty sure she'd be lucky to finish in under 30 minutes so the time was surprising and pleasing for her.
I had wanted to finish in under 45 minutes for the 10K (6.2 miles) but I've been in the 7:30 per mile range during my training runs and I'd have to do 7:15 or faster to achieve that goal...maybe under 46 minutes was possible. My times went like this:
Mile 1 - 6:50
Mile 2 - 13:56
Mile 3.1 - a bit over 22 minutes or so
Mile 4 - 28:16
Mile 5 - 35:48
Mile 6 - 43:36
Mile 6.2 - 44:47
Basically I averaged 7:13 per mile, but I was really worried at my fast times the first two miles, thinking I might wear myself out too soon. I settled into a rhythm the rest of the run and the time seemed to pass by pretty quick. My time was the 28th fastest of the day but that's not saying much...for such an established race, it isn't that well attended by the majority of runners in the region. To me it's not the fall season without this run.
Later in the day, The Wife and I made our biggest combined purchase of the year when we got a new flat-screen TV...well, it's not here yet but should be delivered in another day or two. I always get nervous when prices have a comma in them! Wait til we get a new house eventually......
Saturday night we headed over to Monroe to watch the Warhawks play Florida International. Short story is that we won 28-14 and ULM played a good game in the second half. Sat with some friends during the game, one is a professor in kynesiology there. Paul came down from Little Rock for the game and we ate pizza with him afterwards at Johnny's Pizza on Desiard Street.
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