GA run. 9:20 am, 65-73° F, 60% humidity, winds calm, some sun, some shade. I didn't run yesterday. I didn't want to. I preferred to sit around and read a book. I wasn't all that anxious to run today either, so I slept late, then read just a little bit and then hauled my sorry butt to the Highline Canal trail. My first plan was to do 10 miles, but as I approached the turn around, I decided I would turn around when my watch said 5 miles, when I hit the 5 mile marker if it was there (it was - some are missing), or when my watch said 45 minutes, whichever came last. I turned around when my watch said 45 minutes. So then I decided just to make the run 90 minutes long rather than 10 miles. I was faster on the 2nd half, as usual, so I ended up running a ways past the place where I had started. There were a lot of bicyclists on the trail today. And they weren't the serious bicyclists with their fancy biking clothes. They were just ordinary people in shorts and t-shirts and the like, including some families with kids. It was really a lot more bicyclists than usual, but it didn't seem to be any kind of organized thing. Maybe that's just what happens around that time in the morning on a warm Saturday in the summer. I tried to keep it a relatively easy effort, but it was probably a moderate effort toward the end. I never pushed really hard. I didn't look at my watch much either. I mostly went by feel. AP: 8:43. Splits: 9:15, 8:52, 8:52, 8:35, 8:42, 8:45, 8:42, 8:34, 8:30, 0.33 @ 8:12.
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