MDay -39 -- Wed. August 12

Determined to get some miles on the clock, and feeling a bit more like running again. Out late, after 9, for a Bagg Hill run, but in reverse for a change: GeoHannum all the way to Stebbins, then left out to 202, across and all the way to the Chicopee Rd junction, then back over Bagg Hill and across 202 to Boardman. Slow start, planning to make second half a shade quicker: pace in mid 8:00s is plenty for me right now: five miles in 40+. Find at mile 6 I'm still running at that pace, but then finally feel loosened up and pick up to mid 7:00s, ending up with a fair negative split, thus:

Time: 1:19:01
Distance: 10.03
Pace: 7:53s

Comment: for a mainly flattish course that's a slow pace, but what I needed, and I did feel like I was actually running for the last 4 miles. Stopped clock at railway, then slowly jogged home.