5.1 miles in 34:25.
I was in a time crunch this morning, so I kept the pace brisk throughout. The effort wasn't too hard but due to my lack of fitness I am calling most of the workout a marathon pace effort. I started slow like usual (2:16 for the first quarter) in order to let my achilles stretch out, and my overall pace for the first mile was still fairly slow (8:06).
After I hit my estimated mile mark I sped up substantially, and I hit the 2 mile mark in approximately 14:45 (6:39 mile), and made it to approximately 3.5 miles in 24:26 (9:41 for the 1.5 mile split). At this point I saw a runner in front of me that was running pretty quickly, and I decided to catch her. I would guess that she was running 6:30-6:40 pace, so I sped up to sub 6:00 pace in order to catch her. I made it to a mile to go in approximately 27:56 (3:30 for the 0.59 from the 3.5 mile mark, which is a 5:55-6 average), followed by running the last uphill mile into a headwind in 6:29.
Overall pace for the run was 6:45, with a 6:26 average after the first mile. This is the fastest run I have done on this course since I started running on it a month or so ago. I was happy with how I felt during the run, although at times I longed for the pace to feel as easy as it used to when I was in much better shape.
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