Saturday I started slower . . .

but too slow, and it messed me up. I really took it easy for the first mile (9:28, 148 ahr,) but for some odd reason as I finished up that mile I had a cramp. I rarely get cramps even the other night with the too much pot pie thing I didn’t have cramps; weird. From there I just went back to my run. Mile two was 8:57 as I worked out the cramp. Miles three and four were right around my standard 9:00’ish times (more and more I’m thinking those are slow because I’m headed up hill and turning.) Then mile five was a nice 8:40; mile six was 8:24; and my last little 0.2 mile was at an 8:01 pace.

So calling it a negative split my second three mile was 1:24 faster than my first three. And I did get a bit faster each mile if you consider that miles three and four are up hill. I need to run my course in reverse to see what that does to my miles three and four. I didn’t have a breathe right strip on (forgot it as I hurried to get out as I was loosing sunlight,) and I think that cost me some time.

Overall it was a good week. 18.5 miles weekly average pace of 8:46 compared to 9:05 last week and 8:53 the week before.