Day #10: A run in the dark for Jarrod

 I suppose it's impossible to think that two people can plan a training routine and have it go off without a hitch. And on Day #10 we had our first. Amy was not feeling up to the task of running on Friday evening. She has done great so far and was very discouraged that she was not able to run with me, but it was not meant to be that evening.

 I didn't think I would be able to run either since it was pouring rain for the early part of the evening, but after 7:30pm it cleared and I was a go to have a sort of wet, puddle dodging run.

 Running alone again, I decided to take a long 3-mile route I hadn't gone on before. It would have some hills but it would take me in a big loop and finish me right back where i started in exactly 3.1 miles.  I found that pushing up the hill was hard but since the major uphill was in the first mile, I could cruise on mile 2 and 3 (more or less). 

The result was what I now know runners to call "negative split". This means I ran each successive mile faster than the previous one.  Part of this, again, was due to the fact that the first mile was a lot of uphill.  Either way, by mile 3 I was indeed cruising. Feeling good and enjoying the cool damp evening...I pushed and made it almost 3 minutes faster than my 3.1 mile run just 2 days before.

It may have been the most tired I've ever been after running but I was super happy to have been able to go 5K in about 31:30.  My goal is to be under 30 minutes for a 5k by end of summer and that looks more than possible now!

Onto the weekend!