My first run of the new year was a scheduled easy pace run of 5 miles. I was aprehensive at first because my thigh chaffing episode from Tuesday is still a little painful. Thanks to Chris Russell of RunRunLive who has characterize this little malady as "chub rub" in his recent Twitter to me.I got down to running on the treadmill after a morning of swim classes with the kids and reading a few pages from this month's technology book, Enterprise Service Bus: Theory and Practice. Easy pace for me is characterized by the McMillan Running Calculator as 8:50 to 9:20 min/mi based on my 10K time of 46:27. I set the treadmill to 7 mph because I like whole numbers and did a slight pickup to 8 mph to finish strong the last 400m. This gave me a time of 42:35 an average pace of 8:31 min/mi.
The chaffing didn't bother so much so I think I will give the scheduled 15 mile long run tomorrow a shot. I have got to remember to fuel right because I haven't run that far since the marathon two months ago. I just downloaded a new podcast SportsCast with Spidey and the Henchman so I'll give that a listen during the run.
Happy running!
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