Ran with Sasha at 7:15am. Did our normal route but I only did 2.5 miles of tempo and then just ran relaxed for rest of run instead of the normal 10m tempo. I need to try and let the body recover and hopefully shake this cough. The 2.5 mile tempo was 14:35 with splits of 5:52, 5:50, and 2:53 last 1/2 mile. Felt relaxed but I was still having problems hacking up gunk throughout the run. Overall ran 14.4 miles and averaged just under 7:00 pace for the whole thing. 10 miles in middle was in 65 minutes and change. The inversion was not bad today smog wie but the temperature was 5'F at the start so another pretty cold day. Had 2.5 layers on bottom half and 3 layers up top. Yesterday they said old Puxatoney Phil, the gground hog, did not see his shadow so spring should come early this year. I sure hope he is right. | 