5:54 pace on the gateway trail.
Splits: 6:18, 6:05, 5:53, 5:59, 6:03, 5:57, 6:02, 6:06, 5:53, 6:07, 6:17, 6:02, 6:17, 5:25, 5:20, 5:17. 4:06 and 4:03 for the first and last chunk, 2:43 and 2:51 in the middle. The goal was to keep it nice and easy during the body of the run to conserve energy for a 3 mile tempo at the end. I was feeling kind of fatigued and it ended up being a battle. On the one hand, the last three measured miles are downhill (50 feet but you feel it), but it was also allegedly 17 mph winds going southeast and of course at that speed my shoes did end up feeling pretty slow. Not great still but I wanted to get in a workout since I won't next Wednesday in Chicago. Nice, quiet day on the trail.
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