The last tenth of a mile I ran at 6 mph. A tenth of a mile probably doesn't sound like much of a feat to you but for me it is. I also ran the 1/3 of a mile before that at 5.5 mph. I hit the 2 mile mark at 23:54 and thought I might puke as I started slowing down.
23:54 is 26 seconds faster than last time. My 1 mile mark today was hit at 11:50 - running the whole time at a 5.1. My sister called me around mile 1.2 and threw off my grove a little - so that next .5 miles was off (my breathing was wrong and I was no longer in the zone). I forced myself to keep going and focus again and after 1.6 miles I bumped it up to 5.5 (I had slowed down to a 4 during that phone call/post phone call time period). I wanted to finish strong, and I did.
Although I'm not happy that I wasn't consistent with my running speed today, I am happy that I did the 2 miles under 24 minutes.
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