Last day of running with Alex for a little while, as I am putting him on a plane to head back to ATL this afternoon.. He did not want to run this morning, but came around & decided to do a 5k time trial as he will have to do one next week for cross country. We went to a great trail in a nature center close by that has a nice 3.1 mile loop, a few hills, but nothing too bad. He stopped at around 2 & 2.5 miles, because he forgot to go to bathroom before he left ... but after short breaks started running again. Running time was 21:46, his goal was to break 22 ... so a good run for him. After running 12 yesterday, I pretty much lagged behind a little bit & stopped at 3 miles ... I am not ready to concede he is faster at a 5k, but it probably won't be long, and he certainly is not slowing me down at that distance! My splits were 7:35, 7:16, 7:18. Will probably run 5+ easy miles this evening ... I am committed to 50 mpw to prep for my marathon, even if it takes running twice a day until some cooler temps arrive!
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