Race route - what a breeze!

Today Jill (she's back - yay!) and I went over to Halifax with the families - left the boys (daddies included) to fend for themselves at the Commons playground - and picked up the official Blue Nose Marathon 5km race route at Cogswell and Ahern. Jill has the baby jogging stroller now, so she wanted to practice with it, empty for the first run.  It was a perfect day - about 15 degrees, overcast and a cool breeze.

We started out at our usual pace. The first part was a long, gradual incline. We made it to Bloomfield and down to Gottingen in our first 10min interval - WOW! We couldn't believe it because we figured it was at least 1/3 of the route by that point. We walked 2min then jogged another 10min which brought to just before the hill where the 'finish line' will be next weekend. Again, we felt amazed at how little we had left to go! Past the finish line and around Citadel Hill, we were running along Ahern towards Cogswell with 3:30min left on our - could it be? - LAST 10min interval!  With a final burst of long strides at the end, we finished with 1min left in our interval, and a total time of 36:30!!  YAY US!  We're so PUMPED for next week's run now!

FYI - after we got home, I entered our training route around Lake Banook on MapMyRun.com and discovered that we have been training on a 7+km route - so double-YAY for us! It makes the 5km seem so short.  It also explains why our time today was so drastically short compared to our "happy if we finish in an hour" times from training.  :-)

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Corinna