Home! Tired, sore and ugly. In more positive news, the neighbors dog barked like a lunatic when I pulled up as he usually does, and hasn't stopped since. Hooray for normalcy.

 

I'm a Bears fan, so...

+1. I knew they'd be bad this year, but...

My newly adopted homies are not getting off to such a great start either. As if I needed more help hating the Packers - they've beaten both my teams in 2 weeks.

And I've never tried a 1-mile time trial either. I've sometimes wondered, but apparently not enough.

 

And I've never tried a 1-mile time trial either. I've sometimes wondered, but apparently not enough.

Based on my 5k PR, McMillan says 5:59. Garmin says my fastest mile (at least in the ~6 months I've had this watch) was 6:21, which was at the very end of that 5k. It also shows the final 0.1 as 5:32, which sounds kind of crazy.

 

Based on my 5k PR, McMillan says 5:59. Garmin says my fastest mile (at least in the ~6 months I've had this watch) was 6:21, which was at the very end of that 5k. It also shows the final 0.1 as 5:32, which sounds kind of crazy.

You would be surprised at how fast you can move for twenty to fifty steps here and there. It's actually pretty cool, until you start to slow down. lol.

You would also be surprised at your mile time if you ever gave it an honest effort. That usually doesn't jive with MRT though, so it's really not fair to judge any race times from the 10k down unless you are training specifically for them. In my opinion that it, others may have a different experience.

All this talk of mile time trials is making me want to run one. 

I'm guessing those need a lot of concentration, and are more difficult to execute correctly than longer distances. I mean there's less room for error. But that is only a guess, since I've never raced anything that short.

 

I find mile time trials vastly more difficult than mile races.

If given the choice I would do 200 and 400 meter mile paced repeats, 1000 and 1200 meter intervals at 5k pace, and mile repeats and 3 to 4 mile steady state runs at 10k pace. One workout of each over a 10 day period for a season, with an occasional 10 to 12 mile long run thrown in.

But, if the TT is really bugging you....

 

Not sure I would use a training run for the sake of comparing equivalents (actually I wouldn't) but I get your point.

 

Keep running, you will get all that was lost and then some.

Yeah that's a good point. I felt like I left everything I had out there, but without other people around, and looking at my watch, and watching for traffic, it's really not the same thing as an actual race.