Went to Starkey park this morning. Arrived at the gate at 5:45, had to wait 5 or 6 minutes for someone to open up the gate (posted opening time is not til 6:30 but it usually opens earlier). I'll start from some place else next week since I have to run longer and it might be hotter out. Dixie showed up at 6:00 on the dot. We got going just a few minutes later. There were a lot of bats flying around this morning. Maybe I'd never noticed them before, but they were everywhere. I hope they ate lots and lots of those giant horse flies. Went out at an easy pace, slowly picked it up past 4 miles. We went out to the water stop on the Suncoast parkway, which was Dixie's turn around point, I had talked him into running 13 instead of 10. I kept on going until I was out 9 miles. At this point it was still just barely comfortable for running. The clouds were keeping the sun back and there was a slight breeze, just enough to keep the humidity from being a problem. Didn't try to do any sort of specific pace but I did go faster as I got closer to the end. I put on my music for the last 4 miles but I only used one earpiece since one of the foamy things fell off someplace on the run. Finished the last mile in 6:44. Average pace: 7:45
Overall pace for the run was a little slower than last week but I felt much better at the end. Spent a little bit of time at the social hour before heading back home.
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