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Easy-ish run.

6:31 am, 35° F, 29% humidity, wind 4 SSW.

I headed it out on my standard 4-mile loop that I've done many times before. It's good that I was on a loop that I knew the distance of because my Garmin battery died about a mile into the run. Based on the time on my cell phone when I finished, I ran for about 41 give or take 30 seconds. So I was a little slower than 10:00 pace overall, but I really think I was slower than 10:00 for the first two miles and faster than 10:00 for the second 2 miles.

It's a busy morning.

Moderate run.

6:55 am, 25° F, 49% humidity, winds calm.

My Garmin was charged and ready to go this morning, except that I forgot that I hadn't cleared out the partial run that it recorded on Monday before giving out on me. I was 6/10 of a mile into my run when I looked down and it said I had gone 2 miles, and I realized what had happened. I stopped the watch and reset it at that point. I was able to calculate my total distance and total time, and thus average pace from the data I got, but my splits are kind of weird since I started a new run and thus a new lap when I had done 6/10 of a mile.

I pushed the pace just a little bit, so I'm calling this moderate instead of easy.

AP: 9:48. Splits: 0.62 @ 10:21, 9:51, 9:46, 9:28, 0.4 @ 9:38.

Easy/Moderate run.

6:14 am, 30° F, 78% humidity, wind 2 SW.

I met Lindsay and Allie for the run this morning. I made them go on a short loop because I needed to get home early so that I could get a shower and go to Muffins with Mom at the elementary school. They probably ran some more after I peeled off to go home.

We spent the whole run arguing about education policy. It was the two of them against me. I got a little riled up and I think that made me run faster towards the end of the run. Despite the side benefit of running faster, I should probably stop picking political fights with my friends.

AP: 9:51. Splits: 10:23, 9:52, 9:19.

Moderate run.

6:53 am, 27° F, 38% humidity, wind 6 SW.

It's Saturday so I got to run with Michelle. Hooray! I love running with Michelle. She is doing a beginner's finish-a-marathon plan with intent to run the Utah Valley Marathon. I am not going to run the Utah Valley Marathon, but I am going to do her training plan with her so that I can run with her on Saturdays. Her plan has 4 days/week throughout and the longest distance on a weekday is 8 miles, but the Saturday distances steadily increase up to 20 miles. I figure if I do this plan with her, then maybe at the end I'll be fit enough to do a more aggressive marathon training plan for a Fall marathon, possibly.

But here's my conundrum: My plan was to run 4 days/week for three weeks and then add in a 5th day and do that for a few weeks and then add a 6th day. I've now run 4 days/week for the last three weeks, so it's time to bump it up according to my original plan. However, if I'm also increasing distance every Saturday in order to stick with Michelle, maybe it's not a good idea to increase weekday running too quickly as well. Maybe it's better to stick with the 4 days/week but increase the distance on those days, like the plan does. Any thoughts, anyone?

We did basically the same 6 mile loop that I used to do except we started from her house instead of my house. If you start from my house, the big hill is in mile 2. Starting from her house, the big hill was mile 5+ (the hill is about 1.2 miles). It really shows in the splits. But at least this time I didn't stop on the hill like I did last week. But we also ran the hill a little slower today than we did last Saturday.  We'll probably switch to the trail for Saturday runs in a little while, but maybe we should stick with the streets so that we can work on that hill.

AP: 10:02. Splits: 9:57, 10:03, 9:57, 9:43, 10:45, 9:48.