3 miles, 24 minutes 6:30pm
Flying cloud route. Splits of 8:14, 8:17, 7:22 (It's down hill on the last mile)
Running was an outlet for me when I moved to Minnesota a few years ago after my divorce and the aftermath that followed. Mornings were a quick lift and on Friday and Saturday around 11pm I'd take off for a 4 mile run to think and process things that kept getting pushed into the back of my head. Last night was supposed to be a recovery day but after receiving a bad email I just had to get out and went pretty hard for where I am in training.
The great thing about yesterday was knowing what my 5k time would likely be in a race which gives me a base for figuring much of my other training time tempos. Bummer is that means my marathon pace will be 10 minute miles. Given where I am on long run distances and how long it will be to go 26 miles straight, I'm looking at next year before I'll actually be entering a marathon and want to get that below 9 minutes. In fact, if running is so much more fun for me at night and I have way more energy in the evenings anyway, it just makes sense to go with it. This is supposed to be enjoyable so that I will want to keep with the program and I'm going to make the switch.
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