First Dallas Pace Run

Today we met for our first pace run of the Dallas Marathon training season. The task was a 3 mile warm up followed by a 7 mile pace run. G said to run comfortably since this was our first one. My goal was to go sub 8:00 pace comfortably. We did the 3 mile warm up kind of slow at a 9:45 pace. I reset my watch and we were off. The first mile was a bit slow at 8:29, but we got progressively faster after that with the group taking turns at the front. I stopped for water under I-35 and took off again. I skipped the last water stop at the Rock and focused on finishing strong. I was tired, but running well. I ended up running almost all of the 7 miles faster which was really encouraging for 13 weeks out. I still have a lot of room to improve before 12/14.

Mile Splits - 8:29, 8:05, 8:13, 7:52, 7:50, 7:42, 7:36

Stats - 7.13 miles/56:51/7:58 pace
AHR - 150
MHR - 161