Been wanting to attempt to beat my 3 mile/5k time from high school for a while, of course in my old age I need to cheat and run down the canyon but it is still fun. I wanted to run this yesterday but my alarm did not go off and I needed to travel to Provo, so I did not get it in. Probably for the better as the legs felt fresh. Ran slowly up the canyon 3.2 miles to loosen up the legs, stretched at the top then let it fly. I ran with my garmin and my I-phone, the phone always is shorter than the garmin so I will go off the garmin. First mile 5:32, felt good letting the legs open up, breathing felt fine, second mile 5:53, lost some focus here, and the dog stopped and ran away with her new boyfriend, third mile 5:44 pushing it here. Time for 3 miles 17:09 time for 5K 17:46 AP 5:44, The iphone said three miles in 16:54 with 17:30 for the 5k.
It hurt while running but recovered very quickly, had to go find the dog afterwards (she was in trouble...) Felt really good to run fast even though it was downhill, my highschool 3 mile pr was 17:20 I always wanted to be in the 16s for three, might have to cheat again and fly down the mountain again to break that. I hope between flat track workouts, and speed work downhill, mixed with hilly trail running I can put up a good result if I sign up for something this year.
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