I ran solo the long Lindon loop, with some "change is as good as a rest" variations. We run this loop a lot but I don't remember describing it in my blog before. I'll do it now for historical purposes. It starts at about 4800' and is mostly level for about 2.5 miles. It descends 200' over the next mile (nice). It takes the last 2.5 miles to gradually climb back up to 4800' to end where we started. Normally that climb starts with a steep climb out of Lindon Park. The variation I took today heads east up a short steep hill on the street just before the park then turns south and passes through the big dip. The weather this morning was 10° warmer than yesterday, in the low 40's. It was overcast with no wind. I chose shorts instead of long pants, and ended up taking off my knit gloves halfway through the run. Maybe nice spring weather will finally make it here soon. I felt like seeing how fast I could run without overdoing it. I feel it went pretty well. I averaged 8:26/mi for 6.2 miles. This is over 30 sec/mi faster than just 2-3 weeks ago. My mile splits were 8:25, 8:29, 7:45, 8:45, 8:49, 8:30, and 8:22/mi for the last 0.2. I give the warmer weather and not wearing long pants a lot of the credit, but I do feel like I'm getting a little faster. | 