Tonight was an unexpected run. Haven't run since the 11 miles V and I did on Monday. I was feeling really stiff tonight at work and decided that I needed to get back out and run a little to loosen things up. I hadn't hydrated at all (full coffee diet) but didn't consider it a factor as I just wanted to go a few miles at a slow pace to loosen things up a bit.
I went home and loaded my old killers playlist that I used to run to a couple years ago, got in the car and drove to the summerlin 5k course. I turned off voice feedback on my gps so I wouldn't be tempted at all to push it. I started out nice and slow and felt wonderful listening to some old stuff I hadn't heard in a long time while enjoying the cool darkness of summerlin at midnight. After I passed the hardest part of the course (the beginning uphill) I noticed that I felt really strong and decided to try and push it just enough that my breathing wasn't too labored. I noticed that my pace felt pretty quick, much like it did the last couple weeks while running at boulder, and thought that this might be my chance to break my 5k. I just kept pushing, had no idea what kind of pace I was on with me starting so slow but I just kept going. I knew the course was almost exactly a 5k and pulled my phone out to see that it was right at the 3.11 mark. I ended my workout and Ellie Goulding alerted me that I had broken my 5k record! :)
Shaved off exactly 30 seconds on one of the hardest 5k courses we train on. I feel really great after this run, sucks that V wasn't around to share it with me.
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