Week 6: Magic Mile + Two miles

20:40 second run/walk ratio
54:59 min
3.76 miles
14.6 min/mile
Magic Mile 13:19 min

Did my first Magic Mile run today. Started with the usual 3 minute walk, then 5 minutes run/walk to warm up, then the Magic Mile, which you run as fast as you comfortably can. After that, there was another two mile run. My Magic Mile was pretty fast! I was surprised I managed to get under 14 minutes.

According to Jeff Galloway's website, that means my marathon pace should be 1.3 times my Magic Mile, or 17:18 minutes. Hm. I think I can do better than that, really. I don't speed up that much for shorter runs. I pushed myself, but not super hard.

Well, anyway, I'm going to be pleased with my time for today.

I ran at Meadowbrook Park, so I could let the GPS measure my miles. Also, it's been raining the past few days and my driveway is still muddy in places. I got off to a slow start this morning, not getting up until after 8 AM and didn't get to the park until 10 AM. But it's been cool and cloudy today, perfect running weather, so the late start was no problem. I've got a 9-mile run next week, though, so I'd better start getting up earlier!

I made the mistake of using Rage Against the Machine for my music today—I love them, and thought the music would energize me, but I forgot that their recordings are loud and it was hard to hear the prompts over the music sometimes. I ended up holding my phone in my hand while I was doing the Magic Mile, so I could feel it vibrate to mark the run/walk intervals. (Also, I was using my phone's stopwatch app to time the Magic Mile. I'd assumed the app would time the MM automatically, but Jeff said we should time our MM, so I did. But afterwards, I saw that the app did indeed keep the Magic Mile time, so that wasn't necessary.)

Wish the weather could be like this the whole time! I'm still dreading the long runs on hot summer days.