10.07@7:54
The plan - two miles easy, 7 miles tempo/marathon pace (start at MP and build to threshold), followed by 1 mile easy.
Start from Longleaf church, was trying for sunrise start but was much later. They are chopping up the sidewalk near where I started from so had to run around it. I did 1 mile out and then back for the 2 miles easy then headed off for the 7 mile portion. Fuel belt was bouncing around. Could've ignored it but stopped about 1.25 miles into the tempo and stashed the bottle. Then ran north to farther than the turnaround point (3.75 miles instead of 3.5 miles). Then stop number 2 at the bench. Then continued back to where I stashed the water bottle (now about 0.8 miles to go), pick up pace for the last portion. So, not at all straight through 7 miles, but 7 miles nonetheless at mile splits: 7:52, 7:37, 7:32, 7:31, 7:14, 7:26, 7:13
Finished up with 1 mile easy-ish.
If there were no stops at the above paces I think this would've been an awesome run.
But, as it turned out it was still a good run, getting out of my comfort zone and putting in some work.
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