Nice way to start the year. I honestly thought I would be faster with the interval workouts I have done. This was “race effort” but couldn’t seem to go much faster than workout pace. Kept telling myself I would pick up the pace in the second half, then the last 5k, but didn’t really have much more to give. Could be the Covid booster (Thursday), the interval workout Wednesday was too much too recently, or maybe a little too much rum in last night’s egg nog 🍹 😂. Or maybe a combination of all :) Either way I got the year off to a great start!! And best of all I was able to go hard for an hour and a half with no injurious effects!! Bring on 2022! Got an Ironman on the schedule for July! One last note, Garmin has had me at “Unproductive” since last weekend’s 18 mile run. Could it be that my wristwatch knows what it’s talking about??? 😂