The 5K Diet

Today: 5K (3.1 miles) @ 5:11/km (8:22/mile)

So after much not running, whatever injuries I've had seem to have disappeared. I've got no particular running goal in sight, so I've decided I'm just going to try to run 5K everyday, and take breaks only when work forces me too (which it will without fail do). I've tried this plan a few times over the past few months, but injuries kept rearing their head, work would smash down upon me, or I'd be lazy and it'd peter out.

Well here's to hoping it doesn't do that again.

Today's 5K was a quick let's-get-out-there-and-run kind of run. It was along a normal course, but it felt easy-peasy, and the light rain that began to fall didn't even really register. I somehow miraculously never needed to stop, despite all the lights; at every single light, I somehow managed to always be close to make it across or to pick up the pace a bit and hightail it before the light changed. My fastest pace when doing this had me at 3:20/km (5:32/mile), so I was apparently gunning across these at quite a clip.

Towards the end of the route, there's this hill that I always run down and today I decided to just let gravity have its nasty way with me and I didn't attempt to slow down at all. This resulted in some decent speed—3:47/km (6:06/mile) at its peak—but what was more surprising to me was my form; it wasn't out of control at all, and at max speed I noted that my head was barely moving despite the pace. I was running in racing flats, so I was landing on the flats of my feet rather than the balls, and maybe that's what led to it. But, whatever it was, the form felt damn good.