Over an hour's run for the first time in ages. A city route, Avenues - Pottergate - Bishop Bridge - Barrack St - Grapes Hill - Avenues (just over 7 miles) in 1:06:30, which makes 9.5 min miles. Marie and another runner did the full route which included Telegraph Lane, but I was stretching to keep up with them on the first half so came back short with Granville and someone else. Better to get back comfortably and enjoy it - I still feel a bit vulnerable to "bad runs" putting me off and lowering motivation.
Going out, we stayed slow (en masse!) to Colman Road (8:50, 0.85mi), which was excellent. My group (aiming for 9 min miles) were at Bishop Bridge (3.5mi) at 32:10, which makes 8:48/mile for the intervening bit and 9:08/mile overall. The difference on the way back comes from walking over Grapes Hill footbridge for 2 mins as a recovery after the hill.
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