Today: 6.00 miles
Week: 11.00 miles
March: 11.00 miles
2010: 163.93 miles

Had an acquaintance come in from out of town last night, so a few of us in the office went out to the pub. Had a few beers, some chinese food. Got home much later than usual. Nevertheless, I had a six-miler planned for this morning and I wasn’t going to skip out on it. So I got up and out and got it done.

Went pretty well actually. First warmup mile was a bit slow, but after that, all under 10:00 pace. Splits were:

10:14
9:38
9:24
9:51
9:48
9:49

I changed the display on my Garmin to show me lap pace rather than current pace. I think this works much better. Smooths out some of the jumpiness of the GPS-based speed calculations and lets you know where you are really at for the current mile. Effort wasn’t bad either. Heart rate didn’t really get high at all until mile 5, which per the elevation profile seemed to be mostly incline. Those last two miles though, it definitely took a bit of concentration to keep it under 10:00. I probably get too fixated on that 10:00 pace thing. It’s probably the double digits. My mind says > 10:00 is slow, < 10:00 is fast.

As far as distance, this was my longest weekday run yet. Up to now, 5 miles has been my max on weekdays, though I did do that 5.75 miler last week. My weekend long runs have been from 6 to 9 miles up to now. Shooting for 10 this weekend.