Time: Lunch

Where: Downtown Bellevue Park, for the most part

Workout: 5 miles. The attempt was to run “at tempo” (what is the right lingo?) miles 2 – 4.

Notes & Observations. Downtown Bellevue Park is ideal because you don’t need to concern yourselves with traffic lights or cars. Unfortunately you are dodging Eastside dogs (not to be confused with normal dogs, ha ha). The signs say 1 lap = 1/2 mile but I’ve never believed it. Sure enough I mapped it on mapmyrun and 1 lap is more like .44 miles, even if you go up the incline on the bellevue square mall side. So I took a roundabout warmup to the park from LSQ, ran 7 loops then took the roundabout route back. In all it took around 45 minutes. My 2 loop times ranged between 7:53 and 8:10, so I really did pick up the pace during that time, regardless if I was doing the full mile.
Splits, fwiw
9:22
7:53
8:11
8:04
12:04

Music: The Killers