This morning I woke up and felt the best I have all week, must be the weekend. Today I decided to try something new. I decided to run by feel and not by garmin. Since this is a recovery week I thought I would try something I have never tried since owning my garmin, run without looking at it for an entire run. I set my garmin on the screen that shows only the heart rate, avg hr and hr zone. The run went well. I kept that pace at what felt comfortable and ran without a care in the world. I actually took notice of my surroundings as I ran, noticed things I hadn't before and just plain enjoyed myself. At about 10 miles I started to feel fatigue kick in and just let the pace adjust accordingly. When I got to the end of the run I was pleasently surprised to discover how it went. Here are the splits: 8:32, 8:08, 8:12, 8:13, 8:22, 7:55, 7:59, 7:48, 8:02, 7:59, 8:12, 8:08, 8:16, 8:28. Easy warm up, faster middle miles and slow cool down. I was surprised to see the sub 8:00 miles as I felt the pace was fairly slow today. I actually got to the end of the run and felt better than usual, maybe as a result of not staring at my watch the whole time and adjusting my pace.
Time: 1:54:23 8:10/mile | 