About 2 months ago I made a goal to work up to running 5 miles on the treadmill in 30 minutes. Before today I think my furthest was about 2-3 miles at this pace. Well, today I felt really good and thought I'd give it a try. During the first couple miles I was pleased with how smooth it felt. It didn't feel like I was straining too hard. This was good because at the beginning of the year it felt like a full-on sprint to run this pace. Anyway, after 2 miles it started getting harder, and I started counting each tenth of a mile. But fortunately, I was able to hold on for the full 5 miles. I feel really grateful to be making progress and to be healthy. I guess I'll have to come up with a new stretch goal for tempo runs. I ran 1.5 miles of warmup and 0.5 miles of cooldown.
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