Easy run. Average pace: 9:13.
Weather: 44°F, 87% humidity, wind 8 S.
I got up at 5:00 am and made breakfast (just Eggo waffles) for Thing 3 and got him out the door to scout camp. Then I did No More Trouble Zones. The abs stuff in it is really killing me. I hope my abs are getting stronger from it. After that I got breakfast for my daughter and then when out for my run. It was about 6:45 by that point. I felt kind of sluggish when I started the run, and it was a little chilly in the shade. But then I remembered that I was supposed to be working on mid-foot strike, so I focused on that for a little while, and then I remembered that I was also supposed to be working on heel lift/kick back, so I started thinking about that as well. That got me going faster even though I didn't really mean to run faster. I did find that with all my thinking about my feet, that my shoulders were tensing more more than usual, so then I had to keep reminding myself to relax my shoulders. I focused a little on the back swing of my arms and that went well with the heel lift. Shortly after the start of the 4th mile, Mr. Blue Sky by ELO came on my NotPod. I was able to match my cadence to the beat of the song at first, but it got kind of hard to keep it up. I don't know if it's because I started going up hill, or if that was just slightly too fast of a cadence to keep up for very long. It's kind of a long song, especially compared to those little BNL Snacktime songs I've been running to. But I managed to keep up with it for the duration of the song. That is, until the song slowed down at the end, which was a welcome relief. In any case, my splits were 10:03, 9:28, 8:41, 8:38. I didn't mean to run a progression run. It just took me a while to get warmed up. | 