I don’t know if I had a 48 hour thing going on or what
but today was completely different from yesterday where I had no energy and
felt like crap. I decided to start
trying to break that 13 minute mark for my mile.
Using my trusty RunKeeper app, which has issued an update
and has added a couple of features that makes it all the more usable like
delayed start, I set out. If you have
ever wondered what the road I run looks like below is what was recorded for elevation.
That is what the road
feels like too. It is almost all up hill
until you hit the one mile mark. So not
only am I trying to beat a mile in under 13 minutes I have to do it running up
hill.
I was doing good when my
phone announed 5 minutes in that I had a 13 minute pace. I figured that if I just pushed a little
harder I would come in under for my first mile.
No such luck. You see the hill I
have to climb between the half mile and mile mark. It is brutal.
First mile results:
As you can see from the
above I kept a consistent pace for much of the first mile. If I was
going to beat my goal I was going to have to push my self for the second mile.
I began sprinting for 10
to 15 seconds running as hard as I could for as long as I could until I had to
slow to a jog. I got much better results
doing this.
The peaks are slower than
the valleys, that is the faster I run the deeper the valley. My fastest was a 9:19 pace or almost 6 ½ miles
an hour. I don’t know about you but I
was impressed with myself.
There you have the
graphical representation of my run and the topography.
Daily Recap:
Matt:
Kelly: TBD
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