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My first 5K did not feel like a finish line. It felt like a question. I crossed in 28 minutes, breathing hard, legs heavy, watch buzzing on my wrist. Part of me felt proud because I had actually done it. Another part immediately wondered, “Could I run this faster?” At the time, 28 minutes sounded both decent and impossible to improve. A 5K is 3.1 miles, which means a 28-minute finish is about a 9-minute mile pace. To reach 25 minutes, I would need to hold about an 8-minute mi