I would talk about how hot it was during my tempo run last night, but I think you already know how hot it was. I ran a slow 15 minute warmup followed by 15 minutes at 10:55 pace followed by an even slower 15 minute cooldown. I was quite happy to discover that I could hold sub-11:00 pace for any amount of time in this weather, so it was a good run. I covered about 3.75 miles total.
I continued to sweat for over an hour, since I had a softball game immediately after my run. I played catcher, which turned out to be the equivalent of following my 4-mile run with an hour of squats. My legs hurt today.
Tomorrow is a 7-miler with BAF. I’m a little worried about making the distance. I’ll follow it up on Sunday with the Eastside Tri, which I’ll obviously just be doing for fun and exercise and not all-out racing since it comes a day after the afore-mentioned 7-miler.
STS-118 pulled off a very pretty rendezvous with the space station this morning. Everything went like clockwork. It’s a funny thing about this business: you practice over and over and over again working through all sorts of hellish simulated situations, but when you get to do the real thing, nothing goes wrong and it all seems horribly boring.
Boring is good.
Boring is good, but unfortunately it’s not boring anymore.
I came here looking for updates to see if a repair was going to be attempted. Any inside info. you can share?
Crossing fingers….
Steve, I’m basically getting my info from CNN. Funny, eh? Sorry I can’t help more.