A Call During Run, Slows First Mile, But Leads to a Fast Run!

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:So today was a running day, I left about 8:15 knowing that would give me enough time to finish, take a shower and eat before 10:30 when I had to pick up granddaughter Zoe at school. The one thing that I didn’t remember was my wife had A doctor’s appointment at 10! One of the reasons that I forgot was that she was sick this morning and didn’t go to work.

II was made aware of my forgetfulness a little more than a half mile into my four mile run. In order to answer the phone I had to take off my headphones. That action along with the call I need to make to the doctor to make to cancel the appointment forced me to walk a short distance.

When I started again I was a short distance from the first mile. I passes that point in a time of 11:28 ! That was not a bad time considering the walking I did! In addition, I actually felt better than. I did before I walked and my average pace was dropping

I decided though to deviate from the course that I had planned to run. The basic reason for the deviation was the course I had planned to run would have required another lengthy uphill run!

The Run Post Phone Call

Anyway for the rest of the run, my overall pace continued to drop which meant that I was on pace to run the course in about the same time that I would have run it without the stop. By the time I finished 4 miles my pace was 10:50 minutes per mile! Since I felt pretty good i decided to kick it home with a little sprint. That brought my overall pace time down to 10:48 per mile. That makes the run one of my fastest!

The one thing that I did like about the runs was that because the first mile was so slow for the remainder of the run my overall pace kept going down! That kept me positive any running hard for the full run!!