Notes
It was daddy duty weekend as J was away at her conference. I needed to wait until Liv went down for her nap before I could tackle this challenging pace run. Also, this run was the afternoon before we planned to go to the U2 concert that night.
My goal was to nail 15 miles at goal race pace of 6:49, and potentially uptick to 6:44 for the final few miles depending how I felt.
I started out with an easy first mile warm-up. Then kicked it into 8.8 MPH / 6:49/mi pace.
The downside of this run was that there were a few, brief pauses / interruptions. The first one came about part way through my 3rd pace mile when Letty called. I paused once to pick up the message. Then I called her back. Then she called me back. Then Jen called later. All in all, there were abour 4 short interruptions that lasted no more than 2 minutes each. These were unplanned rests.
The interruptions aside, I nailed this mileage. I kicked it up to 6:44 for the final couple of miles.
This was a very strong pace run and showed my fitness level.