Pretty fantastic run on the treadmill today. That's right all you treadmill haters FANTASTIC. Yesterdays day off seemed to be a good decision, I woke up this morning feeling well rested, started my run slow like normal but then I started noticing that no matter what I threw at myself my body responded. Did a 1 hour progression run 8.8 miles, took a quick treadmill reset/water break and then I decided to throw down a 5K. Started conservative at 9.5Mph for the first quarter felt good bumped it up to 10 for a quarter then decided to settle into a 5:42 pace 10.5Mph. I hit mile 1 in 6:00 flat, mile 2 in 11:42, bumped it up to 10.7 for a quarter, that's when I finally started getting the sick to my stomach feeling, slowed it back down to 10.2 for 1/2 a mile and then ran the last .35 at 11Mph to try and get under 18 minutes. Pretty sure the timer hit 18:01 at 3.1 miles so I didn't quite hit it but close enough. I'm probably going to hurt tomorrow but I was pretty happy getting an 18 minute 5K in. I haven't done that in a very long time. I've actually never ran an official 5K that fast. I'm pretty sure the only PR I have that isn't on a treadmill is my 1/2 marathon. I'll have to work on that. Just remembered, my 50Mile PR isn't on a treadmill. I wont be working on that. Looks like Greg Lamond wants in on the action now.
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