Six Mile Pace Run
I was running a little short of time this afternoon, so I did my six mile pace run today - I’ll do my thirteen miler tomorrow instead, just swapping them around. I ended up doing 6.07 moderately hilly miles in 50:30 which gives me an 8:19 average pace. That’s pretty good, especially with my history of poor pacing for these faster runs.
Time: 8:18 - 8:23 - 8:16 - 8:20 - 8:07 - 8:37 - 0:29 (6:33 pace)
Doing marathon pace is definately getting easier. I didn’t stop at all, didn’t need to drink anything (gotta love this cool weather, 70 degrees with 45% humidity is wonderful to run in). Even better, my lovely wife rode her bike with me the whole time. I wasn’t exactly chatty, but I could still talk - if a little rhythmically.
By an interesting coincidence, my 10k PR is 51:39, which is also an 8:19 pace. I know that I could have run faster today - in fact, not only did I finish with a great kick, but if I hadn’t I feel like I could have gone for another 2-3 miles without much difficulty - and this without water or good nutrition. Improvement rocks.
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Nov 7th 2004
12:21 PM
How much of this do you think is the weather? I have been surprising myself with how easy the running has been this last week or so. I know the weather’s been really awesome, but I’ve also added more recovery/easy workouts, too.
Oh well, maybe my GPS is broken. :-) Here it says that when I did my kick at the end of my long run yesterday I got my pace down under 5 for the last couple hundred meters. I know I was bookin’ it there, but I didn’t think I was that fast, but then again, Gilbert was standing there yelling out what to do with my form…
Nov 7th 2004
4:23 PM
Great running weather…and having your wife along must be great!
Nov 7th 2004
5:28 PM
Improvement does rock Richard, especially after everything you’ve been through. Nice run!
Nov 8th 2004
10:25 AM
The weather? Love it. I’m going to be really happy when it gets down into the low 60s consistently though. Great job on that final push there, Alex.