backpost 2 - June 1

Thursday evenings are always good times to run: too many days had gone by, so I was thinking of an 8+ miler to catch up distance, but in the end I couldn't really do it. Weather didn't help: it was mild but raining, and as I was starting out from the office I didn't want to get drenched. So I shortened a potentially very large loop of the run, which went thus: office, round campus clockwise from Whitmore to the top right corner, then straight across and up the hill to East Pleasant; left and follow it to Pine, cross over onto Puffer Cir and down to the trail that leads back to the park off Montague; then to No Pleasant and finish the campus circuit. A sort of misshapen figure eight, with a couple off hills and nice variety (if still mainly road). Details thus:

Time: 46:03
Speed: 8.07 mph
Distance: 6.2 miles

Comment: ended up feeling bushed after the first couple of miles, but that's because I had speed in mind and really wanted to be at 8 mph or above. Just made it, but it's still uncomfortable. Keep at it, I guess.