Golf course/Wabash Trail out and back - 6 miles, averaged 7:41 Back to running with an iPod to shut out the idiots. Makes me run too fast though, but it is a perfect tool for the unstructured fartlek. Hit the first mile in 7:30, which I never start out at. After mile 1 or so I got a good song and started going through the gears. Looked down and I was flashing 5:15, so I picked it up a bit over a short rise to 4:57, until a guy on a bike said something about me moving along, so I let him pass and pace me for a few seconds and I tried to keep up. I was surprised when I got back to see I was running 4:09 at the peak. A PR in peak pace (yep, it's true I keep track of these minor ones). Wish I had hit the lap button when I started hard because I was just shy of a half mile and I only averaged 6:20. The quarter or third mile when I was moving would have been better. One more pick up on the way back at 5:49 for another third of a mile. The start of basebuilding, but ya need some unstructured speed once in a while.
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