AM - 5.2 miles with the Garmin - started out easy the first mile, slowly built up speed. My right Achilles was a bit stiff again this morning. Lybi and I are going to go get new shoes this weekend. Decided at mile 1 that I was going to make this a speed day. Sped up to MP for the first half mile with the intention of getting up to 1/2 MP for the second half. I ended up progressing up to 10K pace. Slowed back down again, did 2 recovery miles, then sped up again for the 5th mile. Started out at MP again, but this time I got up to 1/2 MP after about the first quarter mile. Continued to speed up, got up to 10K pace, held it for 1/2 mile. Then cooled down for the 0.2 miles and took Sparky out for his 0.8 mile run (no Garmin for this part). Total time for the 5.2 mile run was 39:34, average pace of 7:36/mile. Two tempo miles were 6:51 and 6:36, respectively. |