Figure of 8 -- Thu. March 19

Rather later than I'd planned, and the intended 10 miler seemed a bit long with the race coming up on Saturday, so I figured a 7-8 miler would do. Measured up the Baconville run on MapMyRun (7.44 miles, starting at the church car park on Pelham Rd), but too dark for that, so home and then go out for a GeoHannum figure of 8 run, as done on March 10th. This time though, skip the extension to Stebbins and also avoid the longer finish, so end up with this:

Time: 52:51
Distance: 7.37 miles
Pace/Speed: 7:10s/8.37 mph

Comments: This was a bit of a tempo run with a two mile warm up. So pace was 7:30 or so for the first two miles, gently considering it's downhill at first; then apply pace and see how it goes. I did two miles at 6:45 or so, and then wanted to slack off, but decided to push on, and felt *really* good going up one of the hills (really, like stepping up stairs, no strain), so then pushed on until seven miles done, with 5 at pace (slowing to 7:07 with the uphills near the end). Then for the last 0.37 I slowed right down, cool-off really. Good useful workout, hopefully not too much before Saturday's race. We'll see. . .