kettlebellguy

7-31-2010 6 mile run at Brust Park, Munroe Falls, Ohio

What do you do on a Saturday morning when there is no free CrossFit class at your box? You find something else to do.

We were able to gather nine people to do a run this morning.

After some discussion we decided on a six mile run.

For several of us this was something brand new.

The longest I have ever run was 1.5 miles that I did on Thursday morning in 17 minutes and 11 seconds.

I came in dead last but I ran every step of the six miles this morning at 63 minutes and 18 seconds. I never stopped except for about 30 seconds for some instruction from Dan because I think I was driving him crazy with my poor form.

Starting off I was able to stick with the group but then very slowly I started to fall behind. On three separate occasions Will ran back to me and applied some “willivation” to get me to catch up with the group and at one point even be in the lead.

Everyone made it back alive and there were no injuries that I heard about. CrossFitters like to show of their injuries, not for sympathy, just to show how much pain we can take so if someone had got hurt we would have been sure to hear about it.

Based upon my calculations (which are always suspect) I was running at 10 minutes 55 seconds per mile. That seems very fast to me but maybe I am getting faster. It could happen.

Here is a little pre and post run discussion by the group.

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