Today's run was choose your own adventure: 1) hill repeats, 2) fartlek, or 3) goal pace run 7-10 miles. fartlek sounded fun and hill repeats would have been good if I had had a 6-10% grade hill nearby and didn't want to do the treadmill.
I chose goal pace run. Weather was pretty good, just a tad warmer than yesterday, a little bit of cloud cover and a light breeze, but still humid. Warmed up with 1.8 miles easy running over to almost at Starkey Blvd to run on the bike path there. Plan was to do the first mile a little bit slower, then get onto pace. I felt great for the first 8 miles, last 2 weren't bad but were harder than the first 8. It was mostly uneventful except when I was near my turnaround point there were three dogs out with their owner. One of the dogs was running toward me and of course it was the largest dogs of the three. The owner didn't seem too concerned and I've run by this house before with the dogs out and they usually just run to the edge of the property. But for some reason, I figured I'd just turn around. So, that was the big excitement. I've never done a 10 mile goal pace run. I was a little faster than I should have been but I'm happy with it. Splits: 6:54, 6:42, 6:46, 6:37, 6:36, 6:37, 6:46, 6:44, 6:43, 6:46
Cooled down with a little over 2 miles to get back home.
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