I regularly run a 3.43 mile (5.52km) route from my house, it fits my routine. But for a while I’ve been stuck at just over 26 minutes. 26’09 to be precise. Even allowing for waiting for traffic on one of the 4 road crossings I was still slower than I thought I should be on this run.

Today was good though – 8am Saturday morning. Virtually no traffic so I hardly had to cut my pace to cross the roads at all. I made an effort to get the pace up early and dig in to keep it up if I could. Got home in 24’48. Really pleased. 1’21 off my previous best and even allowing for the lack of traffic that was a big improvement. But it’s still over 7minute miles and I think I can do better than that.

If I turned that into a 5km race it would be over a minute slower than my PB. Time to raise my sights a bit