Thunderstorms passed through last night. I’ll take a little tossing and turning if it means decreased temps and humidity. When I went out for my morning run at 11 AM it was a pleasant 70 degrees with a dew point of 55. I managed an easy 5 miles at roughly 8:30 pace.
This evening it was 78 degrees with a dew point of 50 – very nice. The workout called for 8-9 miles with 4 miles @ 75-80% effort. I find this “75-80%” to be rather vague. I know I want to run at least marathon pace on these days and would not mind running closer to half marathon pace. Anyway, I decided to run to the local high school, do 16 laps on the track and then run home. That’d give me 10 miles.
Given last week’s 3 x 3200 meter (13:07, 12:53, and 12:57) workout I thought 6:30-6:40 pace was likely. My first lap showed I was running 6:32 pace, so I just kept running without looking at any splits. Afterwards I was pleasantly surprised to see I ended up running 25:32 with splits of 6:27, 6:26, 6:23 and 6:16. I felt controlled the whole time and thought I could run that pace for a half marathon (1:24).
Looking at the forecast, it looks like the high temps will remain below 90 for the next few days. I’m hoping the humidity remains low too, especially for Sunday’s race.
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