Back to yoga, and a 15K training run

I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving!  I did.  Sadly, the last of the sausage cornbread stuffing was consumed for breakfast this morning, but I still have other stuffing and loads of turkey.  (And some plans to make turkey pot pies.)

Remember the other day when I wrote a whole thing about how, now that the marathon is over, I want to get back into yoga and maybe break 1:37 in the 15K I'm running in a few weeks?  Well!  I did go to the Saturday morning yoga class at my gym yesterday, and it felt great.  I definitely have some of that soreness that you only get from yoga - like, who knew those muscles in between my ribs were even THERE?  And the sides of my neck?  What is that?  Also, this instructor (who, to be fair, I like very much) is into pilates, and she had us do this thing where we got into a forearm plank pose and HOLD IT for hours.  Or, what felt like hours.  I think it was a minute and a half.  Whatever, it was hard.  I clearly need to work on my core.

Photo from Yoga Journal.   Yeah, it looks easy.  You try it.  

Then, today I went for a run in Central Park - the weather is amazing!  I will say to all of the people out there running in tights, compression shirts, fleece jackets, hats, and gloves - WHAT, pray tell, are you planning to wear when the temperature drops to real winter levels?  It is 60 degrees today.  I wore shorts and was crazy sweating in a lightweight long-sleeved tech shirt (my NYC marathon one, obviously) - I would have been fine in a short-sleeved tee.  I don't even go from capris to tights unless it is sub-30 degrees, and I only wore my compression top a few times last year when it was below 20.

Anyway, my plan for this run was to run most of the course for the upcoming NYRR Ted Corbit 15K, at or below my 10:30/mile goal pace (finishing in about 1:37).  John and I ran 5 miles on Thanksgiving morning at 10:09/mile pace, so I thought I could probably do it - the course he chose by his parents' house in Connecticut was hillier than Central Park.

I did it, and then some!  I'm sure it had everything to do with the awesome weather (and the sausage stuffing I ate for breakfast?), but I felt great on this run.  I had a little bit of hip pain around mile 6, but I was able to push through it.  My average overall pace was 9:59/mile.  I can definitely break 1:37 for this distance, if the weather is reasonable and my hips hold up.  I'm on it.

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
Summary	1:32:58.5	9.30	9:59.8
1	9:42.3	1.00	9:42.3
2	9:58.3	1.00	9:58.3
3	10:12.4	1.00	10:12.4
4	9:53.4	1.00	9:53.4
5	10:12.8	1.00	10:12.8
6	10:28.9	1.00	10:28.9
7	9:42.5	1.00	9:42.5
8	10:20.3	1.00	10:20.3
9	9:31.2	1.00	9:31.2
10	2:56.0	0.30	9:45.5