2.98 miles - 50:33 minutes - 16:59 min/mile
Went to the park to run today, and did the three-mile loop. I got up at 5:30 AM, hoping to be at the park by 6 AM, but ended up wasting 10–15 minutes searching for my waist pack with the pocket for a water bottle. Don't really need water/food for a three-mile run, but I wanted to have it along anyway. But when I couldn't find it quickly, I figured I'd better just take my smaller waist pack for the phone & keys and hunt for the bigger one later.
I ended up heading out just before 6 AM and got to the park around 6:15 AM. There were only two other vehicles in the lot, which felt a bit strange. Usually there are already a lot of walkers/runners/dog walkers there when I get there, but I guess I don't usually get there quite so early. I didn't see another person on the trail until I was nearly back to the parking lot on my last mile! But the parking lot was finally starting to fill up when I got there.
Anyway, it was still cool and pleasant when I started, and it felt good to be back in the park after so long away. I wore my watch so I could do 1:1 minute run/walk intervals, and tried to just take it easy, since it's still only my first week, and my first three-mile run, after not exercising for so long. I felt fine, though, and kept up my pace the whole way. My mile splits were 16:15, 17:49 (the all-uphill mile in the middle), and 16:16. So my final mile was just as fast as my first, which usually doesn't happen. Helps that I had my one-and-only zombie chase right at the end of the run, at 50 minutes, when I was nicely warmed up and going downhill—evaded without any trouble, the zombies didn't even get within 50 meters.
I find myself deliberately running slow so that I'll have some energy to speed up if I get chased by zombies. At some point I will have to either turn off the chases or just hope for the best and live with the fact that I might not always be able to evade them if the chases come at a bad time. Maybe I will turn them off for longer Saturday runs.
I seem to be already planning my runs as though I'm training for a race, although it's pretty early days to be thinking about that. At this point, if I keep up my running, I could do the Long Beach half, or Las Vegas (I always think about it but have never managed to do it), or even Honolulu, if I can work my way up to a full marathon. I've got the time for it, we'll just have to see how the running goes. I would want to get my pace down under 16 min/miles if I'm going to do another full. Don't want to be out there all day.
One week done! And feeling good and enthused about it. Yay!
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