Happy New Year!! 2016 LBLM Training Week 5 - Part 2

  It is officially a new year today!!! A whole blank page, although the stress is still there if not higher. I am going to try not and think about that right now.
  Yesterday afternoon I ran 7.1 miles for the final day of December AND 2015, giving me a total of 201 miles for December and a total of 1,683.4 miles for the year 2015. 2015 started off slow and dark - January 2015 saw 63 miles, February saw 86 miles before things slowly started to pick up:
March - 115 / April - 140 / May - 114 / June - 135 / July 132 / August - 170 / September - 131 / October - 200 / November - 188 / December 201
  But 2016 is going to be different... at least I  hope so. Starting the year off, I ran 10 miles this afternoon. I actually only had 7-8 miles planned but ended up running 10 and they were sore, along with some strong head wind for the first 6 miles. Strangely though, this was my fastest 10 miler yet, according to Strava as it keeps track of your fastest (lucky for my competitive side).
  It was 43 degrees with a feels like 38, wind felt like 15 mph but my garmin says 9 mph W winds. I was sore and quite a bit tired, I retired my road racing shoes to training as I think my oldest pair of training shoes are done but these felt odd for the first 2 miles... things eased up after 25 minutes but I was still pretty tired already.
  I ran 10 miles in 1:29:41 with an average pace of 8:58 min/mile, according to strava my first recorded 10 miler on the same route was 1:41:37 just last March. Today's 10 miler I knocked 23 seconds/mile off, and I thought my run back in August was fast (1:32:23). Out of all the 10 mile runs I've had, I truly think this one is my fastest... 2014's Evansville Half Marathon might have had the fastest 10 miler in that mix but this is my fastest training 10 miler.
Laps/splits
Mile 1 - 9:33
Mile 2 - 9:12
Mile 3 - 8:55
Mile 4 - 8:59
Mile 5 - 8:57
Mile 6 - 8:53
Mile 7 - 8:44
Mile 8 - 8:43
Mile 9 - 8:55
Mile 10 - 8:49

  So far I've got 37 miles for the week, I've got 5 miles planned tomorrow (god willing my legs don't want to kill me) and then 16 miles planned Sunday.

  So Happy New Year to everyone, I truly hope that 2016 is an amazing year for all of us :)