Outside! how I miss running outside every day. I cannot wait until daylight savings, longer days, and warmer/drier times. Summer hurry! Ran the 9 miles a full 2 minutes faster than I ran last weekend's 9 miles, though last weekend's was substantially hillier. Hopefully that just means my calves won't suffer as much this week. Total Time: 1:19:08, 8:47 min miles. Yippee! I need to keep this up so I can break 2 hours in the half marathon I'm running the first weekend in April. Splits: 9:06, 9:20, 9:01, 9:01, 8:40, 8:22, 8:37, 8:33, 8:23. Total Ascent: 925 feet I realize now how this is the distance I need to be going just to train for a 10k. I could feel myself get substantially tireder, my legs starting to grow heavy, right at around 7 miles. But on the other hand, it also shows me the importance of warming up properly, and I guess I really need to warm up with 2-3 miles, as my last fiive miles were all faster than the first 4.
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