Maintainance pace "long" run

Today I ran alone in the Turia park. I went at 5:20 p.m. and the plan was to run 12k at an easy pace, but I was not sure if I was going to do the progression in the last kms. I did not want to run very slow either, since yesterday was pretty easy and tomorrow will be easy too.

When I was about to start I decided to try to average 5:50 per km for the whole run so that meant I needed to go out a bit faster than normally, so accomplished that and I felt pretty good the whole run. That pace was easy enough that did not tax my body and fast enough that the kms passed by quickly, as opposed when I am running very easy that feels that I am running forever, that is part of the patience needed in this sport, however, I just wanted to get over it soon today.

Splits were pretty even and felt pretty good, albeit still tired from Friday`s tempo.

Splits were: 6:23 (about 6:05, given the extra 50m of this km), 5:51 (12:14), 5:46 (18:00), 5:42 (23:42), 5:43 (29:25), 5:44 (35:09), 5:42 (40:51), 5:40 (46:31), 5:35 (52:06), 5:38 (57:44), 5:40 (63:24), 5:51 (this is the same case as the first km, more like 5:35, finished the 12.1k in 69:15, then kept running at the same pace/effort to complete the 70 mins.

Felt good the whole run and felt strong, was thirsty at the end though and my left knee was bothering me by the end, lack of long runs for the past 5 weeks, I guess.

Around 12.21k total or so. Good week of training, 6 runs and around 58k total for the week! Averging 5:43/km for today`s run.