So according to my buddy Hal, every other Saturday or so I’m supposed to run at “race pace”. Well, not having ever run a marathon before, I’m not entirely sure what my race pace will be. I’ve been kind of thinking I’d like to shoot for just under 4 hours, since that seems like a nice round, and respectable, time. So that works out to a tad over 9 minutes a mile. So today, I started out my 5 mile run thinking, alright, let’s shoot for that 9 minute mile pace. Well, my internal pace-o-meter must’ve been broken since my first mile was a 7:45! Whoops. I managed to slow it down a bit, finishing the run in 42:30, which is an average 8:30 pace. So still a bit quick!