Weather Report: Cloudy, 52°F, 64% Humidity, Winds: CALM; feels like 52°F.Average mile split--:08:43 mins.
Beginning at roughly eleven o'clock this morning, I began staring longingly out my classroom windows looking forward to a run after work. It was just one of those days... you know the kind, when students don't seem to want to understand even the most basic of directions and the weekend looks very, very far away... While it looked much warmer through thsoe windows than it actually was, in the end, the weather did not dissappoint and when I finally did make it home and out into the streets, the release was wonderful.
I had initially "planned," in the loosest possible way, to run a mid-mileage distance somewhere between 7 and 9 miles. As I watched the minutes tick away, when I had finally found my way home in the dark, I had been running for over an hour and a half, making this evenings run the longest since my last half marathon trail run just over a month ago.
In the past, I have not been one to commit to long training runs, but now, I find my daily average mileage slowly creeping up. This increase, though, has been at the cost of a decreased mile pace. Right now, I feel "okay" making this trade-off and shifting my previous mile pace of roughly 7:30-8:00 min to an 8:00-9:00 minute pace on long slow distance runs, as I am hoping to expand my base mileage... besides, the cooler weather seems to agree with me!
Embrassez votre été invincible!
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