Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Samson night!

I am sure you may well be familiar with the tale of Samson and Delilah, where Samson’s strength is lost after Delilah’s servant cuts away his seven locks of hair. Well my day was somewhat the reverse, no Delilah or servant of hers but there was a haircut and strength gain. So yes I got my haircut, no real biggie there. This evening I was scheduled for an 8 miler, it was significantly cooler when I headed out just after 8pm. A chirp from my Forerunner and I was off, eight miles later and 1:02:45, a new training PR, I was done! Complete with the prerequisite negative splits, it went something like this: 7:35, 8:04, 8:13, 8:02, 7:44, 7:50, 7:47 & 7:21. Not super fast compared to others but it’s been quite a while since I threw down such a run and I was just happy enough to have it in the bag; hence the post’s title.

7 comments:

  1. Nice job. Since you are looooooong distance endurance runner, I wondered how, when, if you attacked some speed work. I have a hair cut this afternoon. Perhaps I'll be noticeably faster after also?

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  2. Dude, that's pretty damn fast to me!

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  3. nice! wonder how fast you'd go if you shaved your legs?

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  4. It was most definately the hair cut that made ya faster :)

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  5. Hi SLB,

    nice workout. Good pace for an 8miler.

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  6. I'm impressed! Fantastic splits!

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