My neighborhood 7-mile course takes me past a cemetery where my great-great grandfather, a Union soldier in the Civil War, is buried.
I felt much more upbeat going into last week’s 7-mile run than I did before yesterday’s run/walk on the same course. It was a beautiful springlike day, I was excited to run and eager to turn in a decent time that would make the run/walk experiment more of a challenge.
Whereas yesterday I felt like a beached whale after eating seemingly nonstop during a weekend stay in a cabin near Brown County State Park. The weather had turned cold again, in the 20s when I set out. But I was glad to do the time trial because I figured it would give me something to focus on other than irritating distractions.
Feeling crappy as I did, I wasn’t surprised to average a slower pace on this 7-mile run/walk than during Friday’s 10-miler. Even so, I was still 4 minutes faster walking every 5th minute than on last week’s 7-mile run: 1:17:11 vs. 1:21:25 — and that includes a wasted 50 seconds while I waited on a train to pass.
Below are my splits. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of how the run and walk segments work out to the mile averages, but I don’t see a way to do that.
Mile 1 — 11:16
2 — 11:06
3 — 11:01
4 — 10:34
5 — 10:46
6 — 10:42
7 — 11:16 (includes 50 seconds spent standing still, waiting on a train)
.04 mile at end — :18
Average pace: 10:58
