Sarah and I ran tonight. We met up at the Ale House to run one of our preferred greenway trails. We didn't go into the evening with a specific mileage ahead and agreed early on that we would just see where things went. We ended up going 4 miles.
While we were running, we got on the topic of our pace. Tonight, as an example, I felt was an up/down pace night. Mile 1 was 12:35, mile 2 was 13:12, mile 3 was 13:50, and mile 4 was 13:10. I always wonder if this is the best way to run (different paces for each mile). Sarah said something very positive about our pace inconsistency - At least we are consistent in our inconsistency. For some reason her statement really struck me and made me curious. I checked our previous runs in my Garmin Connect and discovered that we really aren't that inconsistent. We are always slow on the mile after the 1/2 way point of our runs. Most of the time this tends to be around mile 3 on our 4 and 5 mile runs.
In other really positive news on our running... We have shaved almost a minute and a half off our average pace since October 23. Our October 23 5-miler was at an average pace of 14:36. The 4-miler tonight was at an average pace of 13:01. Not too shabby for some girls that could barely run 1:1 intervals for 20 minutes at the end of July!
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