Today I had vowed to do my first post-injury 10K run.
And I did! Woo!
It was breezy but I must have tugged with an extra bit of manliness on my cap because the Cap Tug Number was only 1. It was about 19ºC and sunny, though I found the sun was not really an issue until the last km or so.
I had girded myself for the run by dividing it into chunks that could be managed more easily psychologically — the first few km as one, getting to that halfway mark as another and so on. As I passed 5 km I was reasonably confident I could make it. By the time I hit 8 km I knew I would and even thought about trying that little extra burst of speed in the final stretch. It was in the last km that my body began feeling like a furnace, so instead of turning on the boosters, I focused on just maintaining my pace. I added roughly three seconds every km and ended with an average pace of 5.34/km, which is pretty decent for 75 days between 10Ks, so I’m fairly pleased with how it went.
As expected on a sunny afternoon there were a decent number of people in the park but no remarkable incidents to report. Tiger Woods congratulated me for another 250 miles completed. Yet again.
Comparison chart of today’s 10K and the last one on April 21st:
| Distance | July 5th | April 21st |
|---|---|---|
| 1 km | 5:10 | 5:04 |
| 2 km | 5:13 | 5:10 |
| 3 km | 5:14 | 5:14 |
| 4 km | 5:18 | 5:18 |
| 5 km | 5:21 | 5:21 |
| 6 km | 5:24 | 5:24 |
| 7 km | 5:27 | 5:26 |
| 8 km | 5:30 | 5:28 |
| 9 km | 5:33 | 5:29 |
| 10 km | 5:34 | 5:30 |
