I ran the exact same route tonight as I did on Saturday. My splits were more consistent this go round: 8:53, 8:53, 9:00, and 8:41 (versus 8:30, 8:41, 9:01, 9:13). My overall average rate was a second per mile faster. Most impressively to me was that the fourth mile was the fastest of the lot. I'm not sure that I've had a performance where one of the later miles was faster than an earlier one. It's always a good sign when you're able to perform like that.
This performance encourages me that I'll be able to do well at the Running of the Elk Thrive 5K this coming weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to set a new PR and approach my stretch goal of finishing in under 24 minutes.
Additionally this makes me think that I won't have to spend too long trying to even out my performance before once again increasing distance. Maybe I'll even surpass 5 miles before the end of April.
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