With that in mind, I set out to stay on task and not give up, as I've done so many times recently. The weather was great, the traffic was cooperative, but most importantly, I had a run to finish. It was a tempo run, with a 1-mile warmup, 4 tempo miles in the middle, and a 1-mile cooldown.
For the first time in I don't know how long, I finished 6 miles in under an hour.
See the activity on RunSaturday
| Type: | Run - Tempo |
| Duration: | 1:01:11 |
| Distance: | 6.20 mi |
Notice anything in peculiar? I certainly did while running it: the miles between 2 and 5 were tempo miles, and I stayed on pace for the first time since starting this training cycle!
Splits
Mile 1: 9:18
Mile 2: 8:47
Mile 3: 9:07
Mile 4: 9:13
Mile 5: 9:35
Mile 6: 10:33
6 miles, 56:37, 9:52/mi average, 656 calories burned
I'm getting back to where I was last year, and it's an exciting time. Now the goal is to improve without injuring myself yet again.
