Last night I went out for a run before heading up to Santa Monica. I took this as one of the lighter 2 mile runs for the week and hit the pavement hard so I could get back and get showered before I had to be on the road. Since I knew I was only running two miles, I pushed myself to see how fast I could knock those two miles out.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/45289562
23 minutes for two miles isn't amazing by runner standards, but it's important to me for a big reason. What this one doesn't tell you is that my first mile took me almost exactly ten minutes. If you cut out the time where I stopped to re-tie my shoe, I ran a mile in under ten minutes. When I started, I couldn't run a mile without stopping period, and so my time was more like 15-17 minutes for a mile. I didn't think I'd actually crack the ten minute mark at any point during my training. Granted, that pace isn't sustainable, but a ten minute mile is something that has always eluded me going back to the Presidential Fitness Tests in grade school.
It's a sure sign progress is being made, and it's encouraging.
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