easter sun day
this easter, we had a rare holiday where we weren’t visiting family or had family visiting us. (not that we mind family…it’s just rare that it was just the 5 of us for a holiday) i got out the door in the mid-afternoon with temps in the upper 30’s and sunny skies. i pointed myself down the hill on comanche then turned north onto university. i ran north until hitting I-94 then turned west on the frontage road. i stopped in the local McDonalds for a "pit stop" after a little more than 5 miles.
after my brief bio break, i headed back west along the frontage road then turned south onto university. my watch registered 7.5 miles for the first hour of running which translates to 8:00 per mile pace. i kept heading down university then ran up the hill on comanche and passed my house at about 10.3 miles.
i continued north on comanche then turned east then south onto university. i followed it down to where it met up again with comanche and ran up the hill. (yes, i’m running a loop at this point – roughly 5K long) i passed my house a little short of 13.5 miles and kept heading north to repeat the loop.
after 2 hours, my watch showed that i had covered 15.5 miles so during the second hour i ended up covering 8 miles at 7:30 per mile pace. i rolled myself down the rest of university avenue then up comanche hill one last time. i improvised an extra 6/10ths of a mile once i reached my house so i could finish with a nice round 17 miles. i stopped my watch a few ticks short of 2:12 and headed for the shower. (overall pace was about 7:45 per mile)