35th Street Loop

I ran the 35th Street Loop in 35:32 with splits of 8:59, 8:58, 8:52, and 8:44. Crazy. My life is, of course, a succession of over-unders and I put the over-under on the first mile at 9:30 ten steps before I passed its marker, a large tree near the chiropractic clinic on Orange Street. I saw 8:59 and worried for a moment, but was comfortable and remained so throughout. It's such a delight to feel light and fast, even as a 50-year-old has-been when such feelings coalesce in an 8:52.98 pace for four miles.

This makes four consecutive relatively fast days, a Sunday removed from running fifteen and a half miles, and I am not sure what the result of them will be Saturday at the Dam Night Run 5K. My over-under: 23:54.

I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning.