General aerobic run. 8:58 am, 50° F, 68% humidity, winds calm, overcast with light rain the last 12 minutes. There was no point in getting up early to beat the heat and the sun today since there is no heat or sun today, so I slept in. I decided to go run the Highline Canal Train even though I was doing short mileage because I wanted to see how full the canal was. It's usually completely dry, but sometimes there's a little water in it. It was full but not in danger of overflowing today. The trail was damp and a little muddy in spots, but not bad. This was the weather we expected to get in Newport last Saturday. I wonder how that race would have been different if we had had the weather that I had today.
I was going to run 6 miles but then I decided to run for an hour instead, so I ran for 30 minutes and then turned around. I ran the second half faster, so I had to go beyond where I started to get the full 60 minutes. I ran at what I would consider to be a moderate effort, but did push it a little more the last mile or so.
In thinking about my training for the Newport marathon, I'm thinking that I did a lot of miles, but I did a lot of them very slowly, and to some extent that training plan taught me how to run slowly. I've decided that for the next while I'm going to try to run most of my runs a little faster - not hard but just not so slow and easy. I still do some hard workouts and some slow recovery runs on occasion, but I want to bring down my overall average pace a bit. I also tried to start out a little faster today than I normally do.
AP: 8:43. Splits: 9:26, 9:04, 8:47, 8:35, 8:37, 8:24, 0.89 @ 8:01.
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