3 mile warmup; 5k test effort; 2.5 mile warmdown
Test effort 5000m at the Borah track. Perfect evening - light breezes and a good temperature.
Splits of 5:53, 5:56, 5:47 and 41 for a 18:19. On November 7th, I ran 19:55 (more of a tempo effort to be fair) and on February 2nd, I ran 18:51 (worse conditions) - so I am making improvement. I am a little disappointed as I was hoping for an 18:00 time today, but I wasn't really willing to push hard enough to do that.
I'll try this again in another month and hopefully can cut another 20-30 seconds off.
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