I tried to get Sam to run with me, but he has his own running plan. I think he was going to run 12-16 miles on the treadmill at 5-10% incline. Yawn. I couldn't do that. Nick was thinking about running with me, but he ended up running with the Striders and Ms. Burt. I asked Curtis to run as well, but he had no interest in doing this workout. That's okay, this would be a good test to see where I was at with my training. Here we go...
The first two miles did not feel great. I was worried that this would be a long day. The legs didn't feel like they had enough today. By mile 4 I started feeling better. Mile 4 was the first mile that I dropped below 7:00...it was also mostly downhill. All I wanted to do was average 7:20 or so. As the hills started coming (mile 5 - 8) I expected the pace to slow a bit, but I picked it up.
By mile 10 I was averaging under 7:00. I had to drop 5 6:40s to get my pace down. I knew that I couldn't keep this pace up with the final hills but I kept on pushing through. At the 13.1 mark I was at 1:30:55 which is around 6:55 pace. The last 2.5 miles were slower but I still felt pretty good.
Following is split breakdown of the run. This new Garmin does really cool things.
Mile | Time | Pace | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 01:48:40 | 06:58 | |||||
| 1 | 00:07:20 | 07:20 | |||||
| 2 | 00:07:02 | 07:02 | |||||
| 3 | 00:07:14 | 07:14 | |||||
| 4 | 00:06:56 | 06:56 | |||||
| 5 | 00:07:09 | 07:09 | |||||
| 6 | 00:06:58 | 06:58 | |||||
| 7 | 00:06:57 | 06:57 | |||||
| 8 | 00:06:54 | 06:54 | |||||
| 9 | 00:06:42 | 06:42 | |||||
| 10 | 00:06:43 | 06:43 | |||||
| 11 | 00:06:47 | 06:47 | |||||
| 12 | 00:06:40 | 06:40 | |||||
| 13 | 00:06:49 | 06:49 | |||||
| 14 | 00:06:56 | 06:56 | |||||
| 15 | 00:07:12 | 07:12 | |||||
| 16 | 00:04:15 | 07:07 |
Today was the last tempo / full effort run before Pikes. 13 Days to go!!
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