5K: 44 minutes

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I tried increasing my long, slow run pace to 7 kph, which I wasn't sure would be a good idea. But in fact that's about the upper end of what feels good, the whole run just felt like a really good workout. I did 30 minutes at that pace, and I was in a good rhythm and maybe I could even have pressed on, but I'd promised myself that I would drop to a slow jog for the remainder if I made it to 30 minutes. So I did that, running the rest of the distance at 6.5 kph. That gave me a finishing time of 44 minutes, which I'm pretty pleased with. And the whole thing felt a lot more pleasant than trying to run for even 10 minutes at 7.5 kph.

I listened to S1 of the bonus material from the Zombies app, and that was enjoyable. Because I wasn't finding the run miserable I wasn't as bored waiting for the duration of two songs before I got more narrative reward. And since I've been listening to Radio Abel occasionally I really felt emotionally connected to Eugene and Jack, so that was super-tense!