Easy 5 miles

today I ran 5 mi at an average pace of 9:18 min/mi, Vdot43. I know I said yesterday I would go 4 mi but I studied McGee's 5K level 2 race training plan and the majority of the easy days call for 45 min. In my case, 5 mi at 9:17 is about 47 min. So 5 mi is my new easy/recovery run distance from here on out. I plan on running 11 mi easy tomorrow, but tonight I am going to review McGee's training plans for half marathons. I cannot help but anticipate the half easy distance is longer than 5 mi.