It's hard to believe one night of rain could cause so much flooding. This is what it looked like on the drive home a few days after the rain.
To the left of me was Bear Creek Park. Normally a very very nice park, but it was totally submerged under water.
Many Bear Creek residents experienced flooding in their homes. For many, this night/early morning of rain ended up being worse than hurricane Ike.
Your mission should you choose to accept will be to do 3 x 1 mile. Each between 4:40 - 4:50 pace. No more than 10 minutes rest between each rep.
Mission Accepted. Here is how it went down. I did a warm up of 4 miles. I didn't use my Garmin for these mile since it was acting up. Here are the results:
| Mile 1 | 4:54 |
| Mile 2 (.87 miles then quit) | 5:00 |
| Mile 3 (.88 miles then quit) | 5:01 |
I made a deal that if I couldn't maintain sub 5 minute mile pace then I would quit. After the workout I ran a 2.25 mile cool down. No worries, no searching for answers, just moving on from this workout. The good news is I got some practice at sub 5 minute pace.
Well after skipping 2 days of running because of the major amounts of rain, I finally got some running in. The last few miles were done with a friend, so that explains the big pace difference at the end.
| Mile 1 | 7:37 |
| Mile 2 | 7:10 |
| Mile 3 | 7:08 |
| Mile 4 | 7:07 |
| Mile 5 | 7:14 |
| Mile 6 | 6:59 |
| Mile 7 | 7:06 |
| Mile 8 | 8:00 |
| Mile 9 | 8:44 |
| Total Average Pace | 7:27 |
A day after the torrential downpour the park was pretty much back to normal.
At Memorial Park there are probably a million running groups. Sometimes the different groups will run into each other and flash their gang signs.
There were only small remnants of the previous days' rain.
All in all another pleasant day at the park.
Bob made a comment about my unique shoes post:
Funny he made that comment because I just so happen to have those crazy shoes that help you jump higher :)
I had obligations at 8am sharp so I postponed my run till evening then the storm came.
Better luck tomorrow.
I hope.
A coworker of mine introduced me to some shoes he's been wearing. Pretty strange looking. They are called z-coils and they are pretty expensive, about $200. He swears by them. Apparently he had been having pains in his foot and decided to get these. They have coiled springs and are pretty springy.. Hmmmmmm....interesting. I guess that's one way to do it.
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