Our group met at Gardner Village to run around marathon pace. As usual, I felt like the effort was a little difficult starting out, but then I worked my way into it, at least by half way. We went to the 5 mile mark, even though I couldn't find the actual mark, it's just where I remembered it was, think that mile was a little long, then turned around and ran back. My splits:
1- 9:52
2- 9:27
3-8:56
4-8:30
5-8:57
6-9:07
7-8:31
8-8:40
9- 8:38
10- 8:04
Total time: 1:28:46
Yesterday, we ran the 10 miles in 1:36:49, so this was better, even though yesterday was an "easy" day and today I pushed it a little more. I guess my marathon pace as of right now is somewhere between 8:30-8:45, not quite the 8:00 I hope for, but we'll see what happens in the next 6 weeks. I also spent 30 minutes on the stationary bike, so I'm giving myself 2 miles for that.
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