Technically 1600 meters, which is 0.9944 miles, but who's counting. Me I guess. I didn't run it very fast, because I wanted to finish the mile - I haven't run a whole mile, without walking, for several years.
Katie, my therapist, wants me to set my next goal at three miles, and I could probably have kept going, but maybe not for another two miles. Rather than three miles, though, I would prefer to run one mile in less time. So maybe we can do a little of each. One day push the distance by 400 or 800 meters (1 or 2 laps), and another day go for 2:15 per lap (9:00 pace), or even 2:00 (8:00 pace), for at least one of the laps. Eventually I'd like to run 1600 M in less than 8 minutes and 800 M in less than 3:30. We'll see.
On the way to the track and back I had no trouble running up the hills that appeared during the 6 minute run portions of the 10 minute intervals. Chugged right up. I'll switch to 7 minute run portions soon.
Total time 1:11:54, including several stoplights. Distance probably about 5.5 miles. 400 M splits: 2:38, 2:36, 2:42, 2:24, total for 1600 M = 10:20.
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