Dead in the Water, till about the 5th Mile

After a ton of ice cream, I hit the road running. Started out dead in the water just chuggin' along, threw a few hills at myself and they hurt! Thought about just running back home by the top of the second hill (Roby Rd)! I didn't have any gloves only had on a light sweatshirt with just a t-shirt underneath, but perseverance paid off! By the 5th mile I was warmed up, ditched the winter hat and decided to keep moving. Spent the end of the 5th mile, all of the 6th and part of the 7th mile running hill repeats. Felt like a machine, the hill's on Ridge Street due West of the Stoughton Hospital, it's pretty steep and about a 1/4 mile one way! Although I was feelin' good for the second half of this run, by mile 9 all I could taste was the ice cream. Gotta run, Chris Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 883 ft Location: Stoughton, WI Elev. Gain: -3 ft Date: 02/16/10 Up/Downhill: [+741/-744] Time: 5:50 PM Difficulty: 4.5 / 5.0 Weather: Partly Cloudy 31 F temp; 56% humidity 31 F heat index; winds N 4 Performance Distance: 10.14 miles Time: 1:30:04 Speed: 6.8 mph Pace: 8' 53 /mi Calories: 1438 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 13 -0' 40 7.3 +0.5 +33 ft 2 8' 50 -0' 03 6.8 +0.0 -13 ft 3 9' 13 +0' 20 6.5 -0.3 +36 ft 4 9' 14 +0' 21 6.5 -0.3 -27 ft 5 8' 11 -0' 42 7.3 +0.6 -43 ft 6 9' 04 +0' 11 6.6 -0.1 +43 ft 7 9' 40 +0' 47 6.2 -0.6 0 ft 8 9' 18 +0' 25 6.5 -0.3 -33 ft 9 8' 49 -0' 04 6.8 +0.0 +20 ft 10 8' 22 -0' 31 7.2 +0.4 -17 ft end 7' 49 -1' 04 7.7 +0.9 -3 ft Versus average of 8' 53 min/mile

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No Army of Full-Grown Alligators, but Still a Good Run

If their were an army of full-grown alligators, leaving them bottlenecked would've been tough within the fist 600 meters! Tonight's run possibly, would've left me devoured within the first 600 meters? Although, in the long-run no alligator would hold a candle to a 6.5 mile run; even at this extremely slow "winter pace" of a 8:52mm. Granted I did stop, to talk with my cousin for about 2mins at mile four, not a gator in the world would've have caught up to me! Maybe if I were really being chased by an army of full-grown alligators? I would've ran a few miles per hour faster from the get go, leaving them bottlenecked and as a last ditch effort resorting to zigzagging! End conclusion, I would win a bet that..."I could outrun an army of full-grown alligators!" The truth is, an alligator is incredibly quick like a rattler, but they're just not as fast as myself and they can't maintain a modest 8mm! So it's curtains to a gator taking me in a land race! Actually, on a side note, a gator at the front door, might get me? The land speed record for a crocodile is 17 km/h (11 mph) measured in a galloping Australian freshwater crocodile. (Source: Wikipedia) Gotta run, Chris Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 886 ft Location: Stoughton, WI Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 02/13/10 Up/Downhill: [+354/-354] Time: 4:44 PM Difficulty: 4.0 / 5.0 Weather: Fair 29 F temp; 44% humidity 29 F heat index; winds NW 5 Performance Distance: 6.52 miles Time: 0:57:58 Speed: 6.8 mph Pace: 8' 53 /mi Calories: 934 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 7' 49 -1' 04 7.7 +0.9 +4 ft 2 9' 11 +0' 18 6.5 -0.2 +10 ft 3 9' 33 +0' 40 6.3 -0.5 +62 ft 4 8' 54 +0' 01 6.7 -0.0 -53 ft 5 9' 49 +0' 56 6.1 -0.6 -14 ft 6 8' 18 -0' 35 7.2 +0.5 -30 ft end 8' 22 -0' 31 7.2 +0.4 +20 ft Versus average of 8' 53 min/mile

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