I felt a lot better today than I did yesterday. Temps were only in the mid 70's when I finished, so that may have been part of it, but my legs felt like they had more spring in them too. I hit the halfway mark of my run in 44:00 (vs 46:22 yesterday) and I maintained the same pace until about 9.5 miles. Then, a lady came out onto the canal riding her bike and I was feeling feisty, so I decided to pace myself off of her. She didn't start out too fast (maybe 5:40 pace) but eventually it felt like I was going about 5:00 pace, and maybe a little faster. Eventually she started talking to me because she couldn't believe that I was going so fast, and we talked for a bit (while still moving close to 5:00 pace) until I had to turn off to go home. Total of 12 miles in 1:23:37, with the last approximate 3 miles in 17:41 (some of this was running hard, and some of it was slow).
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