5th Avenue Mile

Ran the 5th Avenue Mile today for the first time with these 1/4 mile splits...

1:20 down
1:31 up
1:26 down
1:25 flat

... for a 5:42 by my watch.

Official results have me at 5:45.

If I want to make the first part of my stated goal I'll need to carve 45 seconds off of this for next year's edition. Around this time last year I could probably have done about a 6:30. So that's 45 seconds off in a year. Could that be done two years in a row? I missed about 4 months of training last year so with a good consistent year of training it might be possible. If not I'll be out on the track self-timing one mile on November 1st sometime near midnight.

Labor Day "5k"

Ran the Closter Labor Day 5k with these splits...

6:28 1st Mile
6:42 2nd Mile
6:03 Last 0.92 miles

So that's 19:13 for a 2.92 mile "5k".

The calculators say that's a 20:30 5k equivalent, which was what I was shooting for and what I seemed to be on pace for so I'm counting it that way.

August Re-cap

Added another 27.5 mile week and then two 20-mile weeks that included a 7-day stretch where I only ran 2 days. That was a combination of vacation travel, getting a bit of a head cold from that vacation travel, and waking up one morning barely able to get out of bed with back spasms. But then everything cleared up and I had some nice easy runs leading up to trying a 5k on Labor Day.