9:34 PM I should have run this morning, but I was lazy and didn't... and I just did 4 miles at a comfortable pace since I'm working on pacing myself and want to run tomorrow morning and evening. It's exactly one mile out to the Vermillion trailhead, then another .59 to the end of the bridge by the highway overpass, where I turned north, and the two mile mark is almost exactly at the park by the next little bridge. Then I came back. I thought I did a pretty good job of keeping pace, but I haven't looked at the Garmin to see my splits yet... 7:27, 7:37, 7:22, 7:44. (plus .01 in 6 seconds... if you care.)
4.01 miles in 30:18 (DST13 - 4.01 = new shoes!!!)
So, I'm noticing a pattern here - I actually run faster up hills. The first mile has a slight incline, then the second has a large hill you go down and then come back up in the third mile, and the last mile of course is a slight decline. On my run on Saturday I did a similar thing, but I sped up a lot more on the hill then. | 