Nancy and I ran a pretty quick three miles last night. I wasn't really paying attention, but using the MacMillan pace calculator, we would have run a 30:42 5K if we'd kept running for another minute. Which, for me, is fast. Around 2.5 minutes better than my time in the 2011 runningchunk.com 5K, and we were just out for a training run yesterday, not a (obviously very serious) race.
I've been bike commuting to work for the last two months, and have done a handful of longer rides on the weekends. I think there's something to cross-training on a bicycle. Any cardio strength gains aside, I feel like my legs use less energy now when running. So I can go faster. And faster is funner.
Saturday is the Hancock Canal Run, and Nancy and I are running the 5-mile course (recreationally, of course). Last night's faster run has kind of messed with my pace planning for the race, and 5 miles is an odd distance. But I'm feeling pretty positive about it, especially if the weather is reasonable. Let's race!
