6.2mi, 44:00

The Ocean Blue, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"

WX at 0700: 50(10), DP 50(10), BP 30.44(1030), winds calm, mist, RH 100%

No odometer. Today was done in Nike Air Streak Ekiden racing flats.

Z4 most of the way, Z5 finish. No heart rate monitor.

This morning's weather was excellent conditions, for a race. To add to the bonus factor, the team I was running for took the post championship. I will say up front that I took the first mile way too fast. Apart from that jackrabbit start, I would think that my unusually fast split at the 5 mile mark was because I was running mostly level ground that part of the race and it was on hard packed dirt rather than on loose sand, which was the case for parts of the race. Running on loose sand is a damn killer even if you're wearing racing shoes. Even wearing cross-country shoes (which I wasn't today) wouldn't help much on that surface. Thus, all the more reason to run on it in training.

Oddity: seeing a woman wearing a Middlebury lacrosse shirt. That was unusual if for no other reason than that's one of the last schools (Macalester, Smith, Oberlin also come to mind) I'd expect to see represented on a shirt at Fort Bragg, home of the Airborne and Special Operations, blah, blah, blah... That'd be about as incongruous as walking around in SoHo with one of these shirts on. I would not be so presumptuous as to actually get one.

I came to peace with not being a shooter a long time ago.

Splits:
1.0: 6:50 (6:50)
2.0: 14:11 (7:20)
3.0: 21:39 (7:27)
4.0: 28:49 (7:10)
5.0: 35:45 (6:56)
6.0: 42:54 (7:09)
6.2: 44:00 (1.05)