Today my run was kind of broken up as I ran from school to the car, and after driving home Kimia and I ran with the kids to the track so that she could run a mile time trial. As the track was closed due to lacrosse games on the field I ran back to the house, got the car, and we drove out to a different track so that Kimia could run her time trial. My plan was to run while Kimia was running, but she wanted me to time her while she ran alone. Kimia had already run 2 miles in the morning, plus her warm up, so she may have been a little more tired than normal (2 miles for Kimia is still a lot). We wanted her to run the time trial because she has never broken a 10:00 mile (her pr was 10:16 I think) and she has really been trying to run more recently so we thought she could best that mark by a fair amount. It was dark by the time she started, so I could not really see her, but it seemed like she started off fairly quick. The first lap was a 2:09, followed by a 2:18. After the second lap I told her that she had slowed down, and she immediately sped up some. The third lap was a 2:14, followed by another 2:09 plus 3 seconds to finish off the mile in 8:53. I think that if Kimia just gets some more practice she will be able to cut 10 seconds off of her mile time without improving her fitness. We are both in the process of thinking up significant bribes to motivate Kimia to break 8:00 and 7:00 for the mile as she has told me she wants to shoot for that. After Kimia finished, I finished up my run, running the last 1.5 miles barefoot. I finished the last 4000m in 16:31, the last 800m in 2:37, and the last 400m in 1:14. I was happy with how I felt, as I never felt like I was running all out. I just progressively got faster over the last 2 miles as I was trying to finish quick so that Kimia would not have to wait for me any longer than needful. Even the 1:14 felt very relaxed, which is a plus, especially since I was running barefoot. I did get some more hot spots on my feet. I guess that my feet are not yet ready to run barefoot 2 days in a row. | 