Notes
Got out a little quick with the OGTC boys and hassled them a little for running slow enough for me to keep up. A couple minutes later they were pulling away from me and I tried to hang on to 5:30 pace. Came through the mile in 5:29 feeling fine but not sure the pace was sustainable, but didn't think I was far off. The second mile felt a little harder right away and had the turnaround in the middle, but even with that and a little uphill I ran 5:35. The last mile I was trying to hang on to Alex and feeling my lack of workouts recently as my legs got tired and I felt my arm carriage get higher and less helpful, but hung on for a 5:42 and was able to pick it up slightly for the finish. This is a little faster than I thought I would run today and it felt a lot more natural than I had imagined beforehand, so I'm pretty happy with it. I think I'll start adding in some threshold efforts once per week and probably a little something else. Got a long way to go to run 13.1 under 6 minute pace the way I'd like to, but this was encouraging.
Enjoyed racing in these flats and I'll definitely use them for future road races. Not sure I'd want to run 13.1 in them so I'll at least try on some beefier/wider road flats in the next 2-3 weeks. These fit pretty narrow up front and in the middle.