Run: 10k in 1:02, something like a 6'25" pace

This is one of my favourite runs of the week. I often consider Thursday the end of my run week and Saturday as the start, so this one always has a good sense of satisfaction when it is done. My friend and I meet along the river pathway, and it is an oddly cold day for May. The wind is blowing 20-30 km/h and it is spitting rain.

We chat along the way about our lives and things that we are dealing either at work or home, generally just enjoying the calm of the run while gasping for air. 5k in we come to what we joking call our nemesis, a small hill that takes us to the top of a road bridge that gives us a kilometre or so slight downhill to make up for it. We make jokes about it each time we approach it, and humourously it's not even the biggest hill we'll face on our route.

The kilometres tick away and before we know we're at the base of "wasp hill" in all of it's grade. Unlike last week though, it seems somewhat easier. Could be that we're colder, or more tired, and just want to get to the top. At the top we have our usual celebration of a run together that was enjoyable. We chat about the rest of the day and how we'll be back here again in 7 days.

On our parting, where I have about a kilometre left, I decide to pick up the pace for no good reason whatsoever. It actually feels good to push a bit and look down at the watch at one point and it gives a "live" pace of 5'09". For me that like running scared.

Run review: Love this time, varied speed with the incentive of a chill in the air.