Trying to improve my running

Another pretty flat route. I think I need to average about 4 miles everyday to finish out the goal of 100 miles this month. I did 5 today to give me a lead since I am traveling at the end of the week and am unsure how much running I will get to do. AP: 8:03/mile

ran up wade rd. I was pretty happy with the speed. I averaged 8:09/mile. My slowest mile was 8:16/mile. I was also comparing this to my old runs from back when i started running 9 months ago. I didn't ever run up wade rd then but a similar distance run my AP was 9:20/mile. I was looking back to the end of January when i had been running regular for 5 months and my AP on this same route was 8:42/mile and I remember it being significantly harder then.

I wanted to try and compare where I was back when I started running to where I am now so I tried to run a similar route to one I did in Sep shortly after starting running and at the time felt was pretty hard. I got a little lost on the run and didn't do the exact same route this one was a mile shorter. I will do the other route tomorrow. AP was 8:10/mile.

So I figured out the route from yesterday and tried to go out and see what improvement I had made. I decided to try and do 1 mile sprints followed by 90 second slow runs. I did ok for the first 3 then I was too tired to keep going with that. so I just finished out the last couple of miles semi easy pace ~8:30/mile. the first 3 splits were 7:57, 7:47 and 7:56. I am not sure why I tired out maybe it was too fast a pace and not slow enough on the 90 second recovery or maybe the heat it was ~90 this AM. Anyway I compared to the time I ran the same course on 9/3 at that time AP was 9:39/mile and I had to stop about a half mile from home b/c I was too tired to finish I also seem to remember resting a decent amount in the middle. today the AP for the course was 8:14/mile and I was tired by the end but no problem finishing the run. I am pretty pleased with that improvement.