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(Tuesday after midnight, but it still counts as Tuesday.)

One mile at 7.0 mph. Two miles at 8.5 mph. 1/4 mile at 4.0 mph. 1/2 mile at 9.3 mph. 1/4 mile at 4.0 mph to round out 4 miles.

How long did that take? Math exercise for you. Nah, don’t bother. But here’s another math problem / brain teaser to solve:

bq. How many minutes is it before six o’clock if 50 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes after three o’clock?

Wrap your head around that one for a bit. Here’s another one:

bq. A kid has $2.16, and spends it on a bunch of candy bars. The cost of each bar divides evenly into the money he has, so he gets no change back. He realizes that if each bar were one cent cheaper, he could buy exactly three more bars (that is, the cost of each bar would still divide his $2.16 evenly). How many bars did he get?

No warm-up. (It’s already plenty warm today, thank you very much.) 7.0 mph for 40 minutes. 3.5 mph for 5 minutes. 7.5 mph for 10 minutes. 4.0 mph for 5 minutes to round out the hour.

So that’s a little over 6.5 miles in 1 hour. Not bad, I say, for a start. I’d planned to go a steady 7.0 for the full hour, but got a stitch in my side around 35 minutes into the run that continued to get worse, so I needed to walk and rest for a bit.

Thanks to my friend “Mike R.”:http://www.runamok.net/ for all the running tips and advice. This fellow has nine marathons (and in highly respectable times, too) under his belt, so he has to know what he’s talking about, I’d assume. I’m going to keep a log of my progress here, so feel free to be inspired or uninspired or what have you.