Objective: Threshold Run - 2 miles easy, 5 miles @ half-marathon pace, 2 miles easy. Average pace: 9:47.
Weather: 22°F, 52% humidity, wind 4.6 SSW.
I've been running slight variations of the same route a lot lately. I could have done that again today. Instead, I ran a route that I haven't run in a while. It basically goes from my home to my office and then back home. It's generally downhill from home to my office and uphill coming back. I tried to keep myself from going too fast on the downhill, but then I pushed it a little more on the uphill because I was closer to being done and I was feeling pretty good. I would have called it a moderate effort, not a hard effort. Based on my last 5K, McMillan says my half-marathon pace is 9:27, but I think it's a little faster than that. In any case, my splits were: 11:13, 10:48, 9:32, 9:15, 9:17, 9:12, 8:49, 10:02, 9:52.
I'm working at home today so that I can get laundry done. I go through running clothes really quickly with running 6 days/week and wearing two shirts on every run.
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