It's 60. Man, it was nice to overdress; to pull off a sweaty long-sleeve navy-blue turtle neck and feel ridiculous for wearing it in the first place. I ran the Orange Street Loop, with one-minute walks to start each half mile, in 30:23, with splits of 10:25, 9:56, and 10:02, beginning a bit before noon.
Somehow a casual walk on the River Trail turned into a mad sprint to break 50 minutes for four miles.
I was dressed in blue jeans and a Polo shirt. Following four easy minutes begun at about 3:30 p.m. Central, I decided to jog for a minute at the end of each five. I went through up-wind miles of 13:20 and 12:09 when the thought of a sup-50 occurred to me as I turned down wind. Three miles in 38:01 left me three one-minute runs and 11:58 to break 50. I forced a group of grown men, dressed as rainbow trout, to move their bikes out of my way on the narrow wooden bridge to the finish; and thus undeterred, shattered my goal with a final mile of 11:45 to complete the four in 49:46.
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