Quote Originally Posted by colby View Post
... today on my 3 mile prep run for tomorrow I just felt so slow (plus I took the dog, so we stopped and sniffed everything, next time I take the dog I'm not taking the watch ).
I'm replying to myself and this is an old thread, but I had to share my general progress. I started serious marathon training after my tri at the end of August. That's about a month now. Before that, I was running about 5 miles 5 days a week at about an 11 minute mile pace, and could not get faster, but didn't really care to either because I was stuck in "I hate running, maybe today I will bike instead" land

Today was the first 5-miler for a few weeks, really since I seriously started training. And, drumroll please, today I finished 5 miles in 50 minutes, just about on the dot. A 10 minute mile pace, YAY. I'll take what little improvement I can get

Back to the long march...