On July 3rd Linda, myself and two of my friends headed up for a Bix practice run. If you happen to be new to the blog in the last year then you may not know that the Bix7 is my premier run of the race season. This is the race that started it all so many years ago and definitely the most enjoyable of the lot. As in the past, I like to get a practice run in just to set expectations. The two big hills in that race are nothing to be taken lightly – always good to know ahead of time how much of a struggle it is going to be. For this particular race, there was another reason for self validation…. but will get to that in a bit. This year Sung made the trek up there with us. He has been getting himself in shape and has lost an impressive amount of weight from a healthy diet and getting back into running. This was his second Bix training run and had intentions of going a little further than his previous 4 to 5 mile. His current 10K training program had put him around 6 miles but that was flat outings. The plan was to stick with him to help him negotiate however far he felt like going with a side benefit of forcing myself to take it easy. In the end, Sung made it over both hills and completed the course giving him two PRs in the process – the longest distance yet (7.3 miles – way ahead of his 10K program) and at an average pace of 11:07 which again was his fastest yet. I find it always helps when someone is talking to you the whole time so chatted him up the entire distance. On my front, that pace puts me 2 to 3 minutes over my standard pace so that part of the plan came out perfect as well. Nice and easy, got to enjoy running with a good friend and the fact that I completed it without issue pleased me GREATLY!!
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