Grooved to Run

Today was Week 4 Day 1 of the Hal Higdon 5K Intermediate Training Plan.

I swapped days, making today a 10K run. Not wanting to do multiple loops in the development, I headed South and hit some new roads. Unfortunately that means crossing a few roads and dealing with traffic, but such is life. It made the run a lot more enjoyable.

Ran 6.21 miles in 1:03:23 (10:11/mi pace) with an average speed of 5.9 mph and a max of 8.0 mph. My 1-mile splits were 10:00, 10:05, 10:21, 9:37, 11:10, and 10:10. Burned about 940 calories.

Even though I was still over an hour, that improves my unofficial PR by about six minutes. I’m OK with that.