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So today was a 5 mile ‘pace’ run where I had to do the run at race pace, which for me (hopefully) is 8 min/mi.  I’m a little sick of risking my life trying to run long distances around here when its dark out, so I decided to take a tip from a co-worker of mine and run along the canal during my lunch break.  Worked out pretty well. I was happy to run with light and not have to follow any busy roads.  Trusty GPS watch kept me on pace too!!

Distance: 5 mi

Total Time: 00:39:14

Avg Pace: 7:51 min/mi

Avg Speed: 7.6 mph

Max Speed:  8.6 mph

Second day of training, first day of running.  Did a quick 3 mile run, paced a little over 9 minutes which is what I’m shooting for (I’m trying to train about 45-75 seconds slower than I expect to race).

The big news is that I picked up a Garmin Forerunner 405 to run with.  I’m still playing with it to see what it can do, but it seems pretty rad so far.  For those of you not in the know, its a GPS watch for runners/bikers.  It maps your route for you and keeps your time/pace/distance and all that fun stuff.  I’m a sucker for gadgets so I couldn’t help it.

UPDATE:  Been playing with the watch some and figured out a reasonable way to show my running routes here… So here’s what I did tonight.

2.95 mi, 00:26:46, 9:04 pace