Tonight it was just myself and Bear, running together in the twilight under a sliver of a moon. What a relaxing end to a busy day of refactoring! Anyway, I was supposed to be doing three miles fairly easily since I have my 10 miler coming up this weekend. Even so, the first two kilometers went by too fast - I was breathing a very comfortable 3/3, and we just enjoyed our time together on the trail - its been too rare that we’ve had the chance to run lately, and I’m doing my best to fix that.

After doing sub-8s for the first two km, I intentionally pulled it way back. When I saw my time for the next km though I realized that I’d overcorrected - I’m not exactly the world’s best pacer, although I’m getting better, and relaxed into a bit more speed for the remainder of the run. Near the end, for the last minute or so, we just accelerated smoothly into a fun, faster run (probably 7:00 or so).

Time: 4:55 - 4:57 - 5:38 - 5:26 - 5:12
Pace: 7:55 - 7:58 - 9:04 - 8:45 - 8:22

Actually, looking at those numbers, I should have slowed down even more on after the third km. Oh, well. One of these days I’ll remember my target paces in min/km (I should really have been doing 6:00/km). Maybe. Now its off to a nice sensibly balanced dinner - I’m thinking Cream of Mushroom Soup and homemade Chex mix. And no, not mixed together.

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