I had set my alarm for 5:40 this morning, no sense in doing a long run in complete darkness for most of it....... though the first 3 miles or so was in darkness except for the moonlight. A beautiful moon too, lit up the area nicely and to go with that moon was a pack of coyotes laughing and howling and cackling in the background, barely half a mile from me I am sure of it. I started off pretty slow but gave a good kick at the end, I almost intended on just 9 miles but I thought you know what, I had 10 originally planned so I am going to do 10. The air was crisp and cold, so I was dressed accordingly, though the long socks were much so I'll be sure not to make that mistake again, I had my capri's on, a spaghetti strap sporty tank and my warmer jacket thing on over it, and gloves. It was 37 degrees but with a feels like 33 degrees, heck I thought it was 40 or something, but it felt nice. Elevation gain of 167 feet, and a loss of 162 feet.
I ran the 10 miles in 1:42:19 with an average pace of 10:14 min/mile, not bad for starting out real slow.
Laps/splits were:
Mile 1 - 11:26
Mile 2 - 11:00
Mile 3 - 10:41
Mile 4 - 10:43
Mile 5 - 10:35
Mile 6 - 10:31
Mile 7 - 10:02
Mile 8 - 9:44
Mile 9 - 9:14
Mile 10 - 8:22
Some pretty nice negative splits if I do say so myself.
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