Showing posts with label Chicago Marathon 2012 training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago Marathon 2012 training. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Chicago Marathon Tempo Run by the Lake

In the city we are enjoying very comfortable late-August morning temps. Today, I ran my eight mile tempo run (with a mile warm-up and cool-down) and, as you can see from the picture below, it was a picture-perfect day.   At the start of my run the outdoor house thermometer said 72 degrees. The temps are just warm enough to get a little "heat training", but not so hot that I feel miserable for the second half of the run. 
1 mile warm-up @ 8:04/mile
8 mile tempo @ 7:14/mile
1 mile cool down @ 7:45/mile

Coming Up: The second of three long runs on Sunday.