Running the Causeway

An interesting suggestion came my way this morning, to run across "The Bay" . . . Tampa Bay that is. Dropping one car off on the east side, we then drove over to the west side to begin this run. Due to the shape of the causeway / bridge, you can see your destination the entire duration of the run. In general, the actual bay section of this causeway trail is 8 miles, but my run was 7.5 to get back to my car . . . and that was fine. There was a steady northernly breeze throughout the day, and it was a comfortable 75 F and sunny.

I was looking to average 10-12 minute miles, as I have not done a long training run in more than 3 years since my surgery, so this was going to be interesting. I ran the first three miles in about 28 minutes, then finished the rest of the way running intervals of 6 minutes run and 4 walk. Ended with an overall pace of a little under 11 minute miles. I'm happy with that.Read more