Grooved to Run

Today was Week 6 Day 3 of the Hal Higdon 5K Intermediate Training Plan.

I’m still in recovery and/or injury prevention mode, so I made the decision to ditch the 40 minute tempo run on the schedule for today. Instead I did a slow three, making an attempt to shorten my stride a bit to make it easy on my legs. Covered 3.11 miles in 34:19 (11:02/mi pace). Splits were 10:42, 11:17, and 11:10. Burned about 475 calories.

Other than a slight “dog incident” at the 0.2 mile mark (see pace graph), it went well. There is still something a little funky going on with my left knee, but other than that I felt fine. Certainly no pain anywhere.

Tomorrow I should be back on the plan.