Nice, quick and tiring run: 3.1 in 29:59. That’s definitely a local maximum on pace. The negative splits pulled me from 10 to 9:12.

Negative splits are my friend.

Today’s 3.1 in a pleasant 31:54 (either that or :45, but after the instant replay was inconclusive, I didn’t win the coin flip).

3.1 in 32:20. A rest day really pulled me up over the hump this morning. Most of that run was under 10m pace. Yeah, I used to be faster, but I was slower even just a couple weeks ago. I’m heading in the right direction.

I keep writing it, but it is as much to remind me as anything else: if my scattershot exercise efforts over the last two years have taught me anything, it’s that showing up here is probably the biggest win.