so this happened yesterday. did an F45 class in the morning, legs already feeling it, and instead of going home and being a reasonable person, i drove to a local track and decided to just… go for it.

5.03 km. 21:42. 4:19/km pace.

my old 5k pb, gone by 28 seconds.

i genuinely don’t have a dramatic story for you here. there wasn’t a moment where it got hard and i had to dig deep or whatever. it just felt like a good day to try. no big plan, no taper, no “today’s the day” energy going in. just legs that were already warm from F45 and a track that was empty.

if anything the honest truth is i probably paced it wrong. i sped up more than i should have somewhere in the middle, which is not exactly textbook pacing strategy, and i think there’s more in the tank if i’d been smarter about it. but “could have been faster” while still pb’ing is a pretty good problem to have.

what i think actually happened is the F45 stuff finally caught up with me in a good way. all those leg days i’ve been complaining about apparently do something.

fair warning though, that same F45-plus-running combo has also been sending me some bills lately — more on that in this one. but the six-month writeup on why F45 works for runners in the first place is still the fuller picture.

anyway. half marathon training is still the main event here, this was just a fun detour. but now that the 5k pb’s out of the way, next target is the 10k. we’ll see how long that one takes.