Lunch - 6 miles on the treadmill. I started out nice and easy for the first two miles - 8:00 pace, then sped up to 7:30 pace for 3.65 miles, and for the last bit, decided to see how I handled running at 5:00 pace, and how long I could last. I was kind of hoping I might be able to do a 1/2 mile at that speed, but decided to put the brakes on at 0.35 miles. It felt extremely fast - I haven't run at that speed for a long time.
After running and before I could shower and get dressed, the fire alarm in the building went off, and everyone was evacuated. No fire, but apparently someone in that building had received a piece of mail with a white powder in it, so the fire department and hazmat crew came in to check it out. After an hour of waiting in my shorts and singlet (thankfully it was nice out) I finally got to go back in and grab my stuff from the locker room, but no shower :( Since I actually work in the building next door, I just got dressed and headed over there, but everyone who worked in that building had to collect their stuff and leave. Craziness. About 15-20 minutes before we started going back in, a FOX news chopper was hovering over the area, and I heard that they had reporters there as well. | 