We’re back and I wanted to highlight my workout times from Jamaica. I was a total geek and worked out while on vacation. But, it helped keep in check the frozen drinks, beer and food I ate day and night! I worked out three times, which sync’ed with my home pattern. I ran five miles around an asphalt track at the largest sports complex in the Caribbean. Each lap was 0.5 miles, so 10 times was all it took. The first day, I ran in rain for about 1/2 of each lap and in the sun for the next half. Island weather! The second day was great and cool as I was up around 8 to run. The third day killed me, as the times show, possibly due to the extremely high humidity that day. The times below are for each mile, first through fifth.

Jan. 3rd: 7:46 .. 7:45 .. 8:24 .. 8:56 .. 8:54 Jan. 5th: 7:27 .. 7:59 .. 8:28 .. 9:03 .. 9:02 Jan 7th: 7:44 .. 7:59 .. 8:16 .. 9:34 .. 10:04

What’s amazing for me is that I’d only run six individual miles under 8 minutes since I started running in June of last year. On Jamaica, I ran six miles under 8 on three consecutive workouts. I’m off for a run now, so hope that the trend continues!