3 Mile Run = Home – Doctors - Home
Date: 20th September 2006
Conditions: Mild, Sunny
Notes: For my Wednesday three mile run I tried something I hear about on the running forum I am a member of (Running Times Magazine.com). What you basically do is, if you are running three miles like I did then you run one and a half miles one way and then turn around and come back the same route. If the return leg is significantly slower than the first leg then it means you went out too fast and need to go at a more conservative pace on the out leg.
I set out at a really slow pace so not to risk injury or end up running the return leg much slower. I reached the one and a half mile point in 12.03 and the finished in 24.12 which gives a split time of only nine seconds. So what I know now is I am running at the correct pace at the start of my runs. I finished the three miles slower than any other but I did set out knowing I was running slower than I normally do.
Positive: The difference in the two legs was only nine seconds.
Negative: This was my slowest three miles.
Fast Mile: 7.45
Slow Mile: 8.19
Run time: 0h24m14s
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