47:20 minutes - 3.12 miles - 15:09 min/mile
Had intended to run yesterday (Saturday), but I made the mistake of drinking a Coke with lunch on Friday—I have lately done some experimenting with caffeine, and decided that I wasn't as sensitive as I used to be, so I've been having the occasional Coke with varied results. Friday's result was as bad as it has ever been—I couldn't sleep that night for hours and hours. Finally got a bit of sleep after 4 AM, slept in late and felt really icky when I finally got up, and skipped my run. Kept telling myself I'd rest a while and run later, but eventually just gave up.
But I slept reasonably well last night, and was able to get up at 7 AM and head out to the park. I was supposed to run 3.1 miles for my 10K training program, and was going to just run at home, but I've been feeling really depressed lately and having a hard time getting myself to run, and I thought it would be easier and more fun to run at the park. Which it was. Nice weather, low to mid 60s. I didn't get to the park until nearly 8 AM, but it was still reasonably cool.
Started off having a good laugh at Jack and Eugene, which was great to get me going. There were three zombie chases, at 21, 28, and 34 minutes. The first was was uphill, near the beginning of the second mile. I'd walked a bit after the first mile and was still feeling fairly fresh, so I still managed to evade fairly easily. The second chase, though, was near the top of the hill, still uphill and only seven minutes after the first—that one was really hard! I kept trying to put on bursts of speed, but my legs felt like water and just couldn't keep it up. Despite that, I evaded the zombies, although they got within 50 meters maybe halfway through the chase. The third chase was after the turnaround, downhill, but I was still tired from the second chase and the zombies got within 50 meters again, but I did evade them. Whew!
Splits were 14:47, 15:18, and 14:42. Kept up a pretty good pace on the second, uphill mile—must have been those chases! Good time, I'm pleased.
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