New Plan

So I started thinking.

(Mostly today, while I was dying around the 3.5 km mark)

My plan to get in a 5k distance with every workout is a bad plan.

It's a good plan for a relatively in shape person.

It's a bad plan for a me person.

So I trimmed it down a bit. I'm going to go with the 4km route until I get to the point where I actually feel like I could do more.

Anyway, I bettered my pace today. 12:00 min/km, down :08 from the pace I had on a Friday when I did a full 5k distance. 49:49 as far as time goes. And my total distance ended up being 4.15 km. I don't think my total time would have been in my goal range of under an hour, but there are factors.

(Like instead of going to the state park like Friday, I went to my parent's and went on the roads nearby)

It's hard to get an accurate read on bettering something when you keep changing where you're doing it. But whatever. I went. I did. And now I'm gonna go make lunch.

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Also, the road bothered the ever loving HELL out of my shins again today. I don't know what it is about that route that is so much worse when my sister doesn't go with me, but I'm gonna have to start weighing shin pain versus the joint pain of being on pavement. I think shin pain is gonna win and send me packing back to the state park paths and their cursed hills.