7.6mi, 61:11

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, "Hunting Wabbits"
Rachel Loy, "Love You Too Much"
Theme to the 1984 computer game Skyfox

WX at 0700: 59 (15), DP 50 (10), BP 30.06 (1017), winds SW 3, RH 72%

Odometer 1: 403mi

Z3 medium.
Resting heart rate before start = 48 (138/99)

I guess I'm glad I took yesterday easy. Today's run was unexpectedly faster. It was probably a more positive thing that I wasn't distracted this morning by thinking about whether my pet was going to be with us another day or two.

I am noticing that my knees are starting to feel the runs when I run them in these shoes, so it's probably an indicator that it's starting to get time to replace them. I suspect I have about a month left on these shoes so long as I continue to alternate them. I think I can get away with 500 miles on a pair of shoes, although as I get older, my margin of error will probably decrease commensurate to age and perceived knee joint pain.

However, comparing the two shoes I do alternate, I'll probably just go with one kind, and oddly enough based on biomechanics, it won't be the ones actually appropriate for my stride...it'll be a more general motion control shoe that happens to ride better, IMHO.

The last 2.5 split was faster than expected, but I markedly slowed down after the first 5.1. I noticed that I was fully warmed up around 4 miles and that's probably where I started to make some time back (noting that the second 1.5 split was significantly faster). I also attribute that to the ballyhooed "runner's high," which I tend to discount, but have felt from time to time. Too bad it lasted only about a mile before uphill climbs brought me back to reality.

Splits
1.5 11:58 11:58 07:59
2.1 29:37 17:39 08:24
1.5 41:17 11:40 07:47
2.5 61:11 19:54 07:58 08:02