A new worst mile

I've decided the 3rd mile is now the worst... followed closely by all the rest.

Mile 1: 9:11.91
Mile 2: 9:34.18
Mile 3: 9:33.90

At the 2.5 mile marker my time was 5:30. No shit. There's no way I'm running a 10 minute mile in a 3 mile run. That's just wrong.
At the 2.75 mile marker I had made up another :30.
By the end I had trimmed a full 1:30 off the pace from the first half of the mile. That's a 8:00 pace on the back half, 11:00 pace on the first half.
Not a bad performance, but the mile just flat out sucked.

As a reward I'm drinking beer and watching football.