Workout January 10, 2014

Goal: Run seven miles between 8.30 to 9.00 minute pace
Workout: Ran seven miles.  Here are the half mile splits and one, one mile split: 1)4.29  2)4.22  3)4.21  4)4.25  5)4.20  6)8.47  7)4.21  8)4.25  9)4.24  10)4.22  11)4.23  12)4.28  13)4.40  Total time 61.52  Average pace per mile about 8.50.  Mission accomplished.  It was not physically difficult, it just required patience.  I seemed to lock in the pace and it was automatic after that.  My plan is to give myself sufficient months and months of training consistently that I hope to gradually increase my pace and not have to kill myself.  So that running a seven minute pace for twenty miles a year from now feels similar to running a nine minute mile for seven miles today.