There was a lecture that everybody at work went to, so I came home a bit early to get a run in. Thursdays I'm on my own, and I wanted to see how my pace was looking. So after a mile and a half of warmup I started around Greenlake at a 7:20 pace, just sub-BQ. Took a mile or so to get the lead out, but after that I felt totally comfortable, it was great. Definitely capable of sustaining that for quite a while--whether for 26.2, that is the question. But with a couple of surges thrown in here and there, I'm feeling pretty good right now. An added bonus: the weather was totally inimical, with a ferocious wind that blew across the surface of the lake sending breakers all the way to the other side of the jogging path. (For those that don't know Seattle, Greenlake is basically an oversized duck pond.) Anyway, I averaged about 7:15 for those MP miles, and maybe I can knock five or six seconds of that for sheer meteorological cussedness.
Nimbus orange. | 