Yesterday I completed my first run over four miles. Once I passed the four mile mark, I decided to go for 4.12 miles so that the run would be a mile beyond a 5K.
My splits for the run definitely showed that I am slowing down as the run progresses: each mile was roughly 15 seconds slower than the previous mile: I finished the first mile in 8:30 and the last in 9:13. I think this is something that could definitely use improvement, and I plan to see if I can smooth out the variance in my times over the next few weeks.
Next weekend, however, I will not be working on that as I will be running the Running of the Elk Thrive 5K. It's been a few weeks since the Sac Beer Week 5K, and I'd like to see if I can lower my PR.
Following the 5K, I'll probably run Wednesday and Saturday rather than my usual Tuesday/Saturday since the 5K is on Sunday. After that I will attempt to increase my running to three times a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. For my first week of that, my plan is to do 2 mile or 20 minutes for the weekday runs and 4 miles or 40 minutes for the weekend run. I'll probably do that for a couple weeks and then slowly increase the length of the runs.
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