Objective: Progression run - 6 miles easy, 6 miles moderate
Weather from 5:15-7:15 am: 27°F, 41% humidity, wind 8 mph NW
My mile splits for the first six miles ranged from 10:53 to11:34. It seems that when I'm doing a relatively long progression run, I run the easy part really slowly in anticipation of having to speed up, slower than I go when I'm doing an easy run of the same length or seven longer.
My mile splits for the last six miles ranged from 8:32 to 9:41.
I went out wearing a hooded sweatshirt and two pairs of gloves (among other things, but these things are pertinent to the story). I knew right off that the sweatshirt was too much, and I took it off after the first mile. I thought about passing by my house at some point and dropping it off, but I didn't do it. Instead I tied it around my waist. A little while later, I took off the outer pair of gloves and put them in the pockets of the sweatshirt, the right glove in the right pocket and the left glove in the left pocket. I ran like this for quite a while and then at the end of the 9th mile, I took off the other pair of gloves and put them in the pockets, right in right, left in left. At the end of the 11th mile, I wanted to put one pair of gloves back on, so I reached in my pockets and found no gloves in my left pocket. I had dropped both left gloves somewhere along the way. I continued on and finished the run, then when I got home I got in the car and drove around for a half an hour peering at sidewalks looking for my gloves. When I had given up and was heading home I spotted one of the gloves and stopped and picked it up. It was from the outer pair of gloves. I looked all around but couldn't see the other glove. I'm worried if they both fell out at the same time, because I found the one glove near the curb of a busy intersection and I'm worried that the one glove might have gotten run over and carried away by traffic. And the missing glove is a smartwool glove liner that I got for Christmas. I know that I lost that glove somewhere between the end of the 9th mile, when I took it off, and the end of the 11th mile, where I realized it was gone, so I'll probably run that section tomorrow and look for it. That will make tomorrow's run a little longer than I had intended, but oh well. I was going to run short tomorrow because I'll need a recovery day after today's run, and I need to prepare my son's birthday breakfast. I guess losing a glove, even an expensive one, isn't the end of the world. Still, I would like to find it.
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