3.3mi in ~52.5 minutes (down 1.5m), full lap at 4.8mph on lap 2, 3 more half-lap bursts, one peaking at 4.9mph (up .2). Around lap 10 or 12, I pushed too early into jog mode, and after only about a quarter-lap I knew a half-lap would leave me gasping and overheating, so I dropped back to a 4.1mph power-walk pace rather than collapse all the way back to my mid-range 3.7mph pace.

I would have liked to say to the second how long that 3.3mi took, but as I was nearig the "finish line" somebody's unattended 6-year-old, who had been wandering around bored for at least a half-hour, decided it would be a swell time to ask me how to start the treadmill next to me. And I was all "press the big green START button, and the PLUS button to speed it up"... and kid must suck at video games or maybe he was just retarded, but he kept trying to press the panel below the brightly-colored touch-sensitive PLUS button. Maybe they hadn't gotten around to plusses and minusses at his school yet. Anyway, he figured it out long enough to get about 45 seconds at a gruelling 1.5mph pace before his negligent twat of a father came by to tell him it was "time to go". Then twat-dad stood there looking slightly smug until he realized the kid wasn't making the cognitive leap from "time to go" to "turn the machine off now".

I wouldn't swear the full-lap burst was 4.8mph - seems hard to credit when I was nearly gasping after the full-lap jog part of Tuesday's run, at lower speed, and I was definitely more composed coming out of it today. Maybe it was 4.7; or maybe I'm really training up that fast.

I say "half-lap bursts"... but 2 of those 3 not-full-lap jogs were more like 2/3 or 3/4 of a lap, not a strict half. Somewhere in the second half I decided I'm also bumping up my minimum pace from 3.3 to 3.4mph.

Seems there's plenty of room to push my limits. Next run I hope to push the initial burst to maybe one-and-a-quarter laps, and shoot for the 5.0mph peak.

The gym seems to be struggling with some branding issues... They closed under the name Tropical Fitness before I joined, reopened and briefly adopted the name "Muscle and Fitness", but more recently re-settled on Armstrong Fitness. Their FB page is "All About Bodys Fitness"... really ppl, you want to get somebody fully literate to do your social network presence-building. I think they're really married to the Armstrong name though, since they had the enormous red lettering on the front of the building re-done from "Tropical" to "Armstrong".