Saturday

Got up to do my group trail run.  Pretty cold outside, hovering around the high 20s.  When I got out there, there was a pretty large group for the 0700 lap.  Another guy that's about my age was there, and for some reason I thought he was decently quick, so I decided I'd stay with him.  Turns out not so much.  We stuck with a group of the older people and ended up running really slow for the first half.  Slow enough where I wasn't even breathing heavy.

Getting close to about the halfway point, I mentioned to the younger guy I was with that I was going to pick it up and try to finish with a negative split.  He said he'd tag along, so at the base of the Switchbacks we picked it up and left the group we were running with.  Hard effort up the Switchback hill, then a good quick cruising pace through the back side of Midlands Mountain, another hard effort up the last two big hills and then a fast pace through the Pine Forest to the finish.  Bit disappointed with my finish time of 1:18 but ah well, I knew that first half was slow.

Did some random sets of push ups and squats throughout the rest of the day.