Progression run - 9 miles w/ last 15 min. moderate. Average pace: 10:21.
Weather at 5:50 am: 26°F, 92% humidity, wind 2 mph ENE, light fog. The fog wasn't dense enough to bother me. I could see fine, except that I wasn't wearing my glasses.
I ran the same route on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and I could have run that same route today with a slight modification, but I decided to do something different. The routes I most often do, which go either east or south from my house tend to start out uphill and finish downhill. Today I went west from my house and ran basically to my office and back home (though I didn't go quite as far as my office - I could see it from the furthest point I ran to), which is most downhill for the first half of the run and most uphill for the second half. I guess that makes it a good workout.
My split times for the easy portion varied between 10:18 and 11:26 pace. My split times for the moderate portion were 1 mile @ 8:54 and 0.75 mile @ 8:46/mile.
I think next time I do a progression run I'm going to turn off the automatic mile splits on my Garmin. That way I can get just an average pace for the whole easy portion, an average pace for the moderate portion, and an average overall pace.
There was one section of the run that I had to be careful where I stepped to avoid goose poop on the sidewalk. We get a lot of that this time of year. I guess we're in the migratory path for the geese or something. I saw a whole bunch of them yesterday when I was out walking with my coworker. It was near my office that I encountered the goose poop this morning. | 