7.2mi, 60:56

Ministry, "Jesus Built My Hotrod"

WX at 0600: 66(19), DP 64(18), BP 29.99(1015), winds N 2 mist, RH 93%

Odometer 1: 108mi

Z3-Z4 most of the way. I decided to leave my heart monitor at home. I'm not sure I would've gotten much more out of instrumenting the run since I was going about as hard as I thought I could short of having real competition.

Shitty mood = catharsis run. My goal was to break 60, which didn't happen, but I didn't miss it by that much. I would have had to run about 8 seconds/mile faster to do it. This will probably be my penultimate hard run before the Fort Bragg post cross-country meet next week. I know I'll get at least a day off during the weekend, but that'll be at least partly offset by the expectation that I'll be carting my kids in their Radio Flyer wagon up and down all over the hills of the North Carolina Zoo.

I usually step up for races anyway - running next to people gives me that much more incentive to run harder. I also tend to use things like energy gel packets for races as well. I'm debating whether I want to do that or not for just a 10K, but I probably will.

Splits:
1.4: 11:51 (11:51)[08:28]
2.0: 29:14 (17:23)[08:42]
1.4: 41:06 (11:52)[08:29]
2.4: 60:56 (19:50)[08:16]