8:34 average pace. Glute feels seriously better. Not perfect, about 90%--almost perfect! The big mileage back off is working, or maybe it was the blizzard. Legs are starting to get that fresh feeling. My first mile was under 9 minutes and that never happens. I am always a rickety starter and take a long time to warm up. Foot is doing pretty good. So, if the glute feels okay, and the foot doesn't protest the hard surface, there is indeed hope for a decent run on Sunday. Have to work late, then get up early and make the long drive to Hutchinson for a clinical, so no run tomorrow. A little dust-off-the-cobwebs jog on Saturday. Then the big 1/2. This should be a pretty good-sized one I will be lucky to place in my age group. Heck I don't care I just want to run a decent time and not suffer the misery of my last 1/2. |