Went to Wallsburg with Scott, Jody and Toni. Planned on 22 back to Jody's house. I was hoping for a few groups of pick up miles, hoping to stay around MP for some good temp miles. I started us off too fast of a pace, we usually like to have the first mile be around 8 min pace or so to ease into the run. But it was 11 degrees, and I was cold, so I started off going a little faster than normal. We hit mile one a 7:13, then dropped down to 6:35, then 6:30, and other than mile 20 didn't go slower than 6:40. Averaged a 6:26 pace for the 22 miles. Heart rate was looking good most of the way, was concerned that I was just more tired the last couple of miles than I wanted to be. After looking at the splits and heart rate I was far off of "pushing" it most of the miles, even trying to maintain a 160 heart rate which is what I ran uvm 2 years ago looks to be a huge improvement over that speed. Will be interesting to see how things go the next couple of months. 1 7:13 125 bpm 2 6:35 138 3 6:30 136 4 6:38 149 5 6:38 149 6 6:28 151 7 6:14 145 8 6:34 146 9 6:15 147 10 6:03 153 11 6:11 147 12 6:34 139 13 6:10 148 14 5:59 151 15 5:52 157 16 5:54 162 17 6:22 148 18 6:20 170 19 6:28 151 20 7:06 154 21 6:39 153 22 6:28 155 .15 1:19 137 | 