Sunday 27 April 2008

5.5 miles tempo

In Barcelona for a few days. In the late afternoon I went out for a fast run up Avinguda Diagonal from the hotel. Part of Diagonal had kilometre markers for runners on the pedestrian zone. At Glòries there was a sign marking the start of a 4.4K circuit, apparently down to Diagonal Mar and back. There were a few inconvenient crossroads on this part of the route, but on the other side of Glòries there were far more and the pedestrian zone was not continuous. I turned back at the intersection with Passeig de Sant Joan. When I had reached the route marked for runners I picked up the pace a bit and used the kilometre markers to gauge my speed at 6:00-6:10 per mile. Total distance was probably about 5.5 miles.

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