Medium-long run. 6:11 am, 70° F, 9% humidity, winds calm. I had to get a relatively early start this morning because I'm meeting my visiting teaching companion and the women we visit for breakfast at 9:30. I went to the Highline Canal Trail despite that I was in a hurry because I haven't been there for a few weeks and I thought it would be better to run an out and back on a relatively flat trail today than to run the roads and hills around the hood. It was warm but not too bad because a good portion of the trail was shady. It helped that it was fairly early in the day. I saw a couple of fields of little purple wild flowers along the trail. They were very pretty. It's interesting that I didn't notice them on the way out, but I did on the way back.
I tried to run a moderate effort, not too far beyond easy effort. The only place I really pushed the pace was the last half mile. I managed to get the 8th mile and the last mile under my arbitrary fast miles designation of 8:30, and so I'm reporting two fast miles today. AP: 8:45. Splits: 9:57, 9:17, 9:12, 8:43, 8:43, 8:37, 8:35, 8:25, 8:32, 8:33, 8:33, 8:32, 8:09.
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