I ran Sasha's second race today. The weather was nice, and after the race we even got a few showers, although I wish there would have been just a little more rain. Anyhow, I warmed up running 4 miles in 28:57 and then the race. I decided that since I had been sick, I would just run 5:20 pace for the first 3-4 miles and then pick it up later on. I did that, hitting the first mile in 5:20, followed by a 5:21 and a 5:19. So, right on target for the first mile. I then started to speed up just a little, but not much as I made it through 4 miles in 21:17 (5:17 mile). During the race I decided that I didn't really want to push the pace too much until the end, so I still waited, and at about 4.5 I finally sped up, and ran two quarters in 72, 73 (4:50 pace) to run the last mile in 5:06, and to finish with a time of 26:23 for 5 miles. So, 12 seconds faster than last time, although last time I ran almost 15 miles before the race started and I was working a lot harder to maintain the pace during the race. Today, the pace felt relatively comfortable until that last 800. After the race I ran about 11.5 miles of cooldown in 1:23:28, running the last mile in 5:51 as a fat mile.
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