My plan was to try and average around 5:50 pace for 16 miles on this one. I didn't do a warm-up or anything just jumped right into it and my first mile was a 5:39. For the next couple of miles I felt really good and ran 5:29 and 5:35, so I decided to just try and run 16 miles at close to marathon pace. I ended up running 16 miles in a total time of 1:27:50 which is a 5:29 average.
Mile splits were: 5:39, :29, :35, :28, :29, :30, :31, :25, :28, :23, :30, :36, :34, :24, :27, :20.
This was an out-and-back on the Syracuse Trail.
This was a very good workout for me and a good confidence builder. Weather conditions were very nice, nice cool temps and very little wind.
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