I ran to school this morning. I felt better at the start than I was expecting, so I decided to run a fast mile about halfway through the run in order to practice running relaxed at a marathon effort. I was dealing with a headwind, so I did not expect the time to be fast. I started out a little too hard, but after a couple minutes I was able to relax more and get into a nice rhythm. I was surprised to finish the mile in 5:12, as I thought the wind would slow me down to about 5:20 even with the harder effort at the beginning. From the beginning of the run there was a light rain coming down on me (light enough that I wasn't getting wet). About 6.5 miles into the run the rain started coming down on me a little harder, and it got progressively worse from that point of the run until I got to UNLV. By the time I got into the lab I was soaked, and I could feel the water swishing around between my toes (the roads near the school were all partially flooded, so I had to run through a fair amount of water). I sped up some during the last mile so that I could get indoors a little quicker. Total time for 8.6 miles was 59:10. PM: I ran home, 8.6 miles in 1:04:01. I had to stay late at school today, which was not fun. The only good thing that came out of it was that my clothes had dried off by the time I was leaving school to run home. Overall, coming home late sucks, as I left the house before the little ones were awake this morning and I got home after they were in bed.
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