I jogged Levy Trail North at lunchtime today in 25:04, with splits of 12:38 and 12:26. That is my slowest lifetime run.
There currently are two theories in the Rockamundo household that may explain this: I alternated one-minute runs with one-minute walks from 0.5 through 2.5 miles to complete that particular two miles in 24:35, or 29 seconds faster than I jogged two miles nonstop this morning. I also jogged a little bit through the first and last half mile and then I ran the entire final 0.106855961186669848 miles in 1:07 to make sure I finished the entire Levy Trail 5K under forty minutes, which I did. I got it in 39:52.
I went through three miles in 38:44. My mile splits were 13:09, 12:19, and 13:16. My splits for that two-mile interval session were 12:07 and 12:28.
No, wait, there are four theories (the last two just popped up): 1. I'm faster in the evenings and at night; 2. I was a bit hypoglycemic this morning; 3. As unfit and heavy as I am, it pays to play to my strength, which is running kind of fast in an anaerobic manner; 4. Many times in my forty-one-year, four-and-a-half-month running career, I've had breakthrough moments after I suffered to complete runs longer than whatever the contemporary norm happened to be.
My money's on none of the above, though I'd go with 3 if those were my only choices.
Oh, by the way—and this will sound like an exaggeration but isn't—the two interval miles tonight were right at a billion times easier than the two jogging miles this morning.
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