Good hard miles :)

After yesterday's stroll, I felt like a longish workout of moderately hard miles. I decided on a route of approximately 10.5 miles (10.44 on USATF MapIt tool) with some hills. I'm trying to figure out what a reasonable pace is for the Portland Marathon this fall, so I'll be experimenting a little. Today was slower than 1/2 marathon pace, but after finishing I knew it was a bit too fast (at my current conditioning level) for the full marathon. Still, it gives me an idea of what might be possible. I did the 10.44 miles in 1:47:06 for 10:16/mile.

Here are my mile splits (by my Garmin, which had 10.34 for the route): 11:23 (uphill, easyish mile ave 138 HR), 10:21 (uphill, 149 HR), 10:02 (downhill, 147), 9:49 (downhill, 149), 9:48 (mostly down, 150), 10:50 (uphill, 149), 10:10 (downhill, 141 w/H2O stop), 10:13 (flat, 147), 10:11 (flat, 151), 10:42 (uphill, 153), 3:36 (0.33 uphill, 155).

I think that a 10:30-10:40 pace might be possible for a full marathon depending on how my weight is (down a few lbs to 148 right now; hoping for more like 143-145 later in summer) and how my training goes this summer.