Old Mesa Loop PR

Old Mesa Loop at Garmin Connect
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Went hard today. It had been awhile since my last tempo effort (9 days) and needed to suffer a bit. I really wanted to PR on this loop, and I did, but I still haven't worked out the pacing. I started too fast and lost over a minute on the Old Mesa climb and then a bit more in each of the last three miles. I'm less than 100 seconds away from my goal of breaking 90 minutes on this course. When it's warmer, there is no ice on the trail (held me up a bit, but not much), I'm five pounds lighter, my toe is headed, etc., then it will happen. I have high hopes of pulling this off by May.

Here is a comparison of my mile splits for today and my previous PR:

Mile #         2/14/2013        1/17/2013 
1                 8:47            9:20
2                 9:36            9:50
3                 9:23            9:27
4                10:00            9:47
5                 7:31            7:42
6                 6:49            6:57
7                15:40           14:29
8                10:10           10:14
9                 7:22            7:53
10                6:50            6:35