Really pumped about today. Didn't notice any pain in my foot which was wonderful! Warmed up a mile trying to get my watch to link, but it never did. Grabbed my stopwatch, and then did the good ol' 3 mile tempo on hillside. It was really good. My mile splits werer 6:15, 6:25, 6:19 which added up to 19:00.55. My first mile was faster than anticipated, but it felt comfortable. The second mile, I really focused on keeping my stride, but was 10 seconds slow at the half mile. Coming down the hill, I pushed it more. The last mile was decent. A quarter mile into it, I did slow down a bit, which is where I need to work on pushing it. Coming up the slight hill, my thighs were burning a bit. Really pushed it the last half and quarter mile. Sadly, I didn't break 19, but this was the fastest I'd done all summer. If it hadn't hurt, I would have ran another mile or two. Next time. Cooled down a mile.
In the evening, I ran 3 miles with Ruby at about 8 minute average pace. It had cooled down, but was still a warm summer night. When I got home, I got a text to run the USU course. Drove to it, and the guys were already almost done. Ran the last half mile with them. Then, we ran on campus to the graveyard and walked around for a while, which is totally normal, lol. Ran back getting me to 2.77, but I was too tired to run another quarter mile. It was way fun running that late at night.
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