5/11/11 (Wednesday) Run

Today I ran 10 miles in 1:10:35.  This was the fastest I have ever run 10 miles.  Normally I would add a qualifier on this saying that it was on a treadmill (which it was) but my previous fastest, which was part of the SLC half-marathon, had more than 7 miles of downhill in that first 10 miles and I had none of that on the treadmill, so I feel it is a good comparison this time.  I accomplished this by warming up to 8.4 mph by the 7 minute mark.  I ran at 9.0 mph for the last quarter mile of the first mile and then at 9.0 mph for the last .15 miles of each of the next four miles.  I continued at that pace until the end of the five mile mark.  I then increased it to 8.5 mph, still running faster the last .15 miles of each mile.  I did this for the next two miles and then increased it by .1 mph at the beginning of each new mile, still running faster at the end of the last mile, except for the end of mile 9.0.  At mile 9.0 I increased it by .1 mph each of the next two quarter miles and then by .1 mph each tenth of a mile beginning at mile 9.6.  I felt tired at the end of the run but not exhausted.  However, the difference between today and the SLC half is I doubt I would have been able to keep up this pace for another 3.1 miles.