I am in Utah with my family as we move to Iowa. We stayed with the Pachev family last night, and I ran with them this morning. We ran 2 miles with the kids and then ran up the canyon before running a 3 mile time trial to see where my fitness is at. Starting pace was erratic the first 400 meters, but after that I settled down and got into a groove. Splits were: 80, 77, 75, 75 (5:07), 75, 78, 76, 77 (5:06), 77, 76, 76, 75 (5:04) for a total time of 15:17. I was pleased with the time as on Friday night I told Sasha that I wanted to break 16:00 and I was way under that goal. I was also expecting to fade the last mile, but I negative split the time trial. I am pleased that my fitness is coming back so quickly, but I can tell that I still have a long way to go. Total distance for the run was 14 miles in 1:48:02. |