Went for a run tonight and ended up with a bit of a conundrum when I arrived back home to check on my progress. We went for what felt like a great long run. We both thought we had run at least 3 miles but, upon checking the route on mapmyrun and gmap-pedometer, we actually ran only 2.38 miles – which is 0.22 miles shorter than last time. Okay, well, time doesn’t always move in a linear fashion when you’re distracted, so we were willing to accept that the run just didn’t get the distance we were hoping for. However, when checking on the time – this is what bothers me – we ran 5 minutes MORE than we have ever run in one run, yet we ended up on a shorter route coming in four minutes slower than we did on the longer route. What the heck does that mean? I don’t think we were going slower. I don’t feel like we were, anyhow. And last time we had that horrendous hill to contend with which by all means should have slowed us down. I don’t understand why running more of the route = taking longer on a shorter distance.

If anyone has some insight aside from “you must be running slower,” I’d love to hear it. Any known time vortexes occurring last night? Alien abductions? Otherworldly possession? Because the (rational) alternative is frustrating…….

EDIT: For anyone who thinks the difference isn’t all that much, keep in mind that once you do the math that means we added a whole 4 MINUTES to our mile time tonight. 4 freakin’ minutes! That’s nearly a lifetime!