Since I was put into the 3:1 pace group, I opted to reduce my maintenance run from the 5:1 I had tried last Wednesday to a 4:1 instead. It was okay, I guess, but there really is nothing like starting to run to make you realize just how out of shape you are. As usual, stopping certainly felt pretty awesome.
I traced a 0.66-mile loop around Peterson Park, then ran it four times. Each loop took about eight minutes, putting me on a 12-minute-mile pace - so I guess I could have run it appreciably slower if I wanted, with my pace group being 14-minute miles, but whatever. Running a little faster on the weekdays will presumably just make the long Saturday runs easier. Total distance, including the piece of running and walking back towards the house from the park to finish the last 4:1 interval, was about 2.87 miles; total time was just under 35 minutes.
12 miles an hour = about 5 hours and 15 minutes over marathon distance. But I ran less than 3 miles - only about 11% of a marathon - and was quite ready to finish, so there's a long way to go before I can really feel confident that I could maintain anything resembling that speed over an entire course, obviously.
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