I wasn’t going to write about this Peloton milestone and then I decided it might serve a purpose.

Not as a Peloton milestone.

The runs aren’t super exciting milestones because, first of all, I’ve done a lot more runs over the past five years than 600.

For the first couple of years we had Peloton, they only had the classes, and the longest class might have been 60 minutes, but there were only a few of those.

So as I did increasingly longer runs I listened to the Peloton instructors less and less on my runs.

Then they added more features for outdoor activities and I slowly worked it back in, but I went without using Peloton outdoors for a while there.

So I knew I was on the verge of 600 but I had no desire to do a live run to get a shoutout when I went for my run on Monday.

My desire on Monday was to run 6 miles…and to not feel awful doing it.

Last week I went for a quick run during a busy week - I think it was Thursday afternoon - and it was the only chance I had to squeeze anything in and I figured maybe I’d try for a quick 20 minutes and it felt like I was running with a piano on my back the entire time and it just did not feel good.

So it needed to be better than that.

It was.

And that’s why I’m writing about it - to keep a little bit of a record of a good run in mid-May that covered a decent distance.

As I’ve talked about a bunch, most of my runs so far this year have been shorter. The first batch was preparing for the BAA 5K, and the longest of those training runs was maybe 45 minutes.

I think I did a 6-mile run in early January with my friend Jenn, but other than that everything has been in the 3-to-5 mile range.

So 6 miles felt like an important marker, first of all with the BAA 10K coming up next month, but also as I build up to marathon distance again this summer.

I intended to go out at an 11-minute/mile pace but, as usual, I went a little faster than intended. (In my defense, most of the beginning of my 6-mile route is downhill.) I was surprised at my overall pace because I thought some of the uphills would slow me down.

But I did have enough in the tank to finish fast, which was part of my plan.

All told it was a really strong run, and I wish I knew why.

This is part of my problem - I can’t exactly pin down what works some days and doesn’t work others.

I was stuck in traffic driving back from the Mets game Sunday, which should leave me feeling stiff on Monday. But I also felt light because after falling behind on work last week I caught up on a lot of that Monday morning before I ran.

I ate ballpark food Sunday - that can’t be a good factor. And it was late morning when I did the run - not my ideal time of day.

So I don’t know. All I know is I have 6 good miles in me, which I’ll remember at the end of June.

Before then, though, there will be lots more runs.

My hope is to build up to around 10 miles by the 10K, so theoretically I’ll be able to run the 6 miles at a pretty good clip (my goal is to beat an hour in that race), while also getting a pretty good amount of miles under my belt before Chicago training starts in early July.

I know not all of those runs will feel as good as Monday’s.

But a run like Monday’s is great motivation to try to find that running sweet spot again.