Great run with Kelly...5+ miles!

DISTANCE	PACE	ELAPSED TIME
1 mi	12:22 min/mi	00:12:22
2 mi	12:22 min/mi	00:12:19
3 mi	12:37 min/mi	00:12:31
4 mi	12:31 min/mi	00:12:24
5 mi	15:36 min/mi	00:15:28
5.2 mi	14:53 min/mi	00:03:07

Kelly and I decided to do long runs together...today was our first day of training together. 

Our original plan was to run at 7:30 this morning...woke up to rain. Thankfully she did not want to run in the rain either. We postponed our run until the rain stopped. 10:00 we met at the high school 

I did my warm up walking to the high school lot, so I didn't start my work out until we actually started. We did a walk 1-minute, run 2-minute interval. I was curious as to what the times would actually turn out to be and they are right on with just running the entire time....and energy is spared. 

The first mile flew by...was it because of conversation or the intervals? Probably a combination. 

Miles 2 and 3 were good. There were a couple of times that even the 2 minute run was trying...but having someone else make you accountable really helped. During mile 3 there was an uphill section and we challenged ourselves to run to the stop sign and not walk that portion. Again, we did, but we felt it too. We we walked for 3 minutes before we started the next interval. Before we knew it 4 miles was done!

We started running the mile 5 but, we were both spent and we did our cool down walk to the high school from the middle of Kern Road maybe 1/2 mile. We didn't listen to music but had conversation throughout the run...which is what I read you should be able to do. I don't think I could do it running the entire time, but definitely in the intervals it is doable.