Well, it was one of those mornings running. Not so good. I thought I'd get in a medium length run before leaving to enjoy the freedom of running outside a compound. I think 2 factors contributed to to this: 1) I ran hard Sun, Mon, Tues. I just didn't have enough recovery time. 2) I think I started out a bit dehydrated in that I hadn't drank a lot of water during the previous 24 hours. Also, I hadn't eaten much the day before either. So, I definitely paid for it. When I started out, there was a pretty good head wind. I thought, no problem, that means a tail wind when I return. I thought I would go a total of 10-12 miles. At mile 5 out, I was already feeling more tired than usual, but I thought no problem since I'd have a tail wind home. At 5.5 miles I said forget, I'm turning around. Well, I turned around thinking I could settle into a decent pace back and my body was telling me, no way! And, when I did turn around it seemed like the wind died down and of course it was getting warmer and warmer. There was probably a bit of a tail wind, but it sure didn't seem like it. Oh well. Here are my splits: 10:46, 10:09, 10:20, 10:20, 10:48, 10:37, 10:03, 10:10, 10:01, 10:56, 11:23 AP: 10:30 Boy howdy I felt old today! Better day tomorrow????
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