I had to almost drag myself out of bed, even after sleeping in! I knew I needed to run today and part of me really didn’t want to. But I made myself get up. It was sunny and around 30f. I did a little bit of the dynamic warmup and headed out the door. I had meant to map out the route I was planning to make sure it would be far enough for my 8k run at 90% of TT pace. I wasn’t 100% sure how it would work out distance-wise but it wasn’t too bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I ran down 12th and most of the sidewalks had been shoveled with a few that were a mess of re-frozen snow that was super lumpy from footprints. At about Morgan I stopped and did some more of the dynamic warm-up and started the 8k. My planned pace was 8:38 miles. But I forgot that my watch was now in kilometers and I hadn’t made the conversion to per K pace. Ugh. Oh well, I also realized that for whatever reason my screen wasn’t actually showing my pace anyways, just distance and elapsed time. I could use the free run for the warm-up and then switch to the virtual pacer, but I like having it all in one run on Strava. Oh well, so I just by feel. I turned on Van White Blvd and then onto the Cedar Lake Trail. Any parts that hadn’t been plowed were still snowy so I stayed on the bike trail. I took the stairs from Cedar Lake Trail up to the Wirth trail and then took the main Wirth trail all the way home. My 8K finished right at Wirth and 55 so the distance worked out pretty well. Overall distance was 6.73 miles in 1:00:15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My 8K was 42:01 or 8:27 pace so a little bit faster than I was supposed to be going. That is 5:15 per kilometer pace. My goal pace for this run was 8:38\/Mi or 5:21\/K. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So overall that feels pretty good! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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