AM:
7-hrs sleep, in work at 7am. Today is a make-up from yesterday, meaning much
lighter in work. Now just spending the day crunching data from the experiments
for this week’s deadlines… As per the running plan for the week I did some more
speed today. At about 10:00am I headed over to the course 1 MM, it is about 1.5
mi from my lab. At the mark I was planning pace through the 6 MM. I knew about
what the splits were supposed to be but I only had mile 4 memorized and I was
slow on that one. However, I just looked at the numbers and to my surprise the
course tool would have me at 5:53.0 per mile for this stretch. I was the
furthest off for the final mile and that one I hit 12 seconds under pace (I
thought I was going slowly and overcompensated). I’m glad I hit that last one
harder I averaged 5:53.5 for the stretch!!! Very happy about this. Could have I
kept the pace for another 20 miles, probably not today but I wasn’t exhausted either.
Then with about 0.5 mi to go for the run I noticed I could still catch the 7min
guy for the total run. So I pushed that portion as well for a photo finish with
the 7min guy 1:17:02. Mi 11-T2 Avg. 7:00 HR 157
Two quotes: First one from
the Oprah on-line class my wife is taking and the second from a shirt I saw on
Monday…
"Worrying
pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose." –Eckhart Tolle
"The
pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret" - Sarah Bombell
PM:
Feeling pretty good. Legs are sore but moving. I added a few “shake-out” miles
with a loop of SH at 7:15pm. Mi 5-R1 Avg. 8:19 HR 132
Asics DS-Trainer #1: 112 /
/ Asics DS-Trainer #2: 112 / / Saucony Rides #1: 96 /
/ Saucony Rides #2: 93
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