I ran 6.2 easy miles on the Orem route with Larry again this morning.
At lunchtime my plan was to run up Eagles View with the Novell guys at an easy pace and then push the downhills, similar to Saturday. However, when I hit the fitness center at 12:00, Tom was warming up on a treadmill and Cory wanted to leave right then (we normally leave at 12:10) to get back for a 1:00 meeting. I told them to go ahead and I would try to catch up.
I changed as quickly as I could and headed out. I saw Tom a block or so up ahead, but I couldn't see Cory at all. I got stuck at a red light and Tom pulled farther ahead. I ran a sub-7:00 minute pace for about a mile to catch Tom just before State St., not quite the easy pace I had planned.
We saw Cory quite a ways ahead of us and never caught him, even though we pushed up the hill at a pretty good pace. I decided to go ahead and push the downhill. I ran from the top of the hill down to the stop sign (0.58 miles) at a 5:40/mi pace. For the less steep 0.36 miles from there down to State St. I averaged 6:08/mi. We backed off the pace a little for the 1.56 miles back to work, but still managed an average pace of 7:35/mi.
Even though I was planning to take it easy the first part of this run, by chasing Tom and Cory I ended up with my fastest time so far this year for this run, 37:48 (7:34/mi).
My Eagles View runs this year have been:
1/22: 41:57 (8:24/mi)
1/25: 39:48 (7:58/mi)
1/29: 37:58 (7:36/mi)
2/5: 39:48 (7:58/mi)
2/12: 37:53 (7:35/mi)
2/26: 40:11 (8:08/mi)*includes time stopped at light
3/5: 39:22 (7:52/mi)
3/12: 41:57 (8:23/mi)
3/19: 37:48 (7:34/mi)
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