Why I Stop Running by Pace in Late April
For most of the year, I have a rough sense of what a good workout looks like in terms of pace. An easy long run through Fort Clinch singletrack comes in around 9:30 to 10:00 per mile. A solid tempo effort on the Parkway sits somewhere in the 7:30 to 8:00 range. I’ve run these routes often enough that I mostly check my watch to confirm what I already feel. Then late April arrives. Not all of April — the first two weeks are still fine. But somewhere around the third week, the numbers start lying. ...