Big Tuesday

Tuesday is workout day. I like workout days. Compare that to Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays which are recovery days. I like recovery days too. Mind you, recovery days simply mean that I don't run as hard or as far as I do on workout days. Which brings me back to Tuesday.

Today I woke up early and went for a 5 mile run with my friend Eric. Eric is a triathlete. Biking is his strongest discipline - running is not. I like running with him because it forces me to slow down my pace a little and run more relaxed. Everybody gets tight and a little stressed when they do something over and over again - think job, driving, lifting weights, etc. The same thing happens to runners. Sometimes we can all use a reminder from a friend to take things easy and relax a little. That's what my weekly Tuesday morning runs with Eric are so great. Plus, having an exercise buddy is always a plus.

Tuesday was our last Health Screening event. I don't know where I'm going to get the number of steps that I did each day during these events. I had to walk between my office and the car and the screening event and my car and the office waaaaaaaay too many times. It sure did look good on the pedometer though.

In the afternoon it was time for my workout. I met up with a few of the guys from the team that I race for, the Pacers Racing Team (we're sponsored by Pacers Running Stores) at the AU track with our coach Matt Centrowitz (also the AU track and cross country coach). Since it was so hot Coach let us have a little bit of an easier than normal workout. We ran 8 400 meter repeats, with a 400 meter jog in between each interval. The average pace for our hard 400s was 66 seconds. A 400 is exactly 1 lap around the track. How fast do you think you can run one?

All of that running wore me out, but helped me tally a great step total for the day.

5/25/2010 | Daily Step Total = 33612