This Week in Running 4/30/17

Total Miles: 34
Tuesday: 5
Wednesday: 8 (including D5K - 22:28)
Thursday: 5
Saturday:4 
Sunday: 12 including Tapleyville 7 Miler (52:35- PR for this course)

1.  7:34
2.  7:50
3.  7:55
4.  7:43
5.  7:31
6.  7:02
7.  7:09

Tapleyville 7 Mile Race

This is the second year for this race, and the second time I've run it. The start in downtown Danvers is just a half mile away from our home, so how could I not run it?

Last year I ran it in 56:01 and I improved this year to 53:24, which works out to a 7:38 mile pace. Ethan ran it as well, finishing in 53:09. He had trouble finding the start and didn't actually start until more than a minute after the gun had gone off. (This doesn't matter for your time as your race bib contains a chip that records when you cross the start and finish lines).

Next up is a half marathon in Hamilton, MA on May 15.

I'm also running the weekly 5k - the D5K - here in Danvers on Wednesday evenings. I've been lowering my times each week and I'm down to 22:10 for the 5k. Hoping to break 22 minutes in the next few weeks. These results are posted coolrunning.

Tapleyville 7 Miler

This past Sunday there was a 7 mile race (actually 7.1 miles) here in Danvers that I signed up for at the last minute. The course runs along streets I run regularly and along the rail trail (an old railroad bed that has been turned into a cinder-based walk and bike path). An out and back course, the first half is generally uphill and the back half generally down. This exaggerated my normal tendency to start slow and finish fast; I did the first mile in 8:33 and the last in 7:24, going flat out at the end. In the end I did the course in 56:01. Next up - the Binghamton Bridge Run Half Marathon the first weekend in May.