Went for a run last night and pleasantly surprised!

I made it out for a run last night during my night shift and I was quite surprised to knock off a pretty damn good pace!

I was surprised since I've once again taken a few weeks (maybe more) between runs, it was hard up north with the weather being colder than I prepared for and also that i was pretty much on call everyday so I couldn't really be away from the clinic.

Back to last night. I was able to run my first 3 kms well under a 6 min pace of 5:06, 5:43 and 5:50, which was an average pace over the period of around 5:30, and the amazing part was I felt pretty good about it. My 4th Km wasn't even that far off 6:01 km, and at the 5 km mark my overall average was around 5:49/km. It's been along time since I've been under that 6 min pace mark actually.

The one thing that I did do when I was up north though that likely helped a lot was drop almost 10 lbs. I can only imagine just how much of a difference that makes over a run. I could imagine your body would be much less fatigued and your endurance would improve.

I'm also really loving importing all my data into Runalyze, it's such a great service for analyzing and tracking the data. I'm loving the fact you can review your pace at any moment and the cumulative average over the entire run. I was surprised to see that my sprint at the end of my run was actually a decent sprint pace and often I'm so gassed I feel like I'm sprinting by barely making a 5min/km pace.

Now that I know I am able to follow my pace more closely I'm excited to get out there and challenge my own sprint paces a little bit more.