I wish there was an option for steady state pace on here. The first 10 miles were definitely not marathon pace, but they were harder than just a run of the mill easy day. In any case, I did a hilly 12.5 miles (just under 500' gain, 500' loss according to the FRB course tool) at 6:57 pace, which would be 6:36 pace on a perfectly flat sea level course. Actually, I suppose it was a hair more. I noticed about a tenth of a mile in that my Garmin had accumulated a grand total of 0.00 miles, so I reset the watch and lost that first bit.
In any case, I kept it pretty steady state pace for the first 10, but ran harder for the last 2.5 miles, which I ran at 6:55 pace (slightly faster than average) despite picking up over half of my total overall climb in that 20% of the run, with almost no downhill to counteract it.
Once again, I didn't run until 11 PM, despite having had absolutely nothing going on after 4:30 or so. I don't know why I keep doing this, but I suppose that if I'm going to run in the dark, I'm better off doing it later when there's next to no traffic.
Oh, also, that hill on 3300 S going up to 1300 E (especially the last 2 blocks) isn't very fun!
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