AM: (10.5, 1:30:54). 21:04/19:04 wu/cd. I ran with Dafi this morning - she was doing a 6 mile steady state (her marathon PR is 3:32 so her steady state pace should have been about 8:09 or so, with altitude adjustment). She took it out really slow, and I was trying to push her every mile - miles 2, 4, and 6 have a serious uphill, the splits were: 8:14, 8:26, 8:17, 8:21, 8:13, 8:11. She did great since her goal was 8:30's for the first miles. I wanted to take off the last two miles, but she was struggling and I felt it was better to push her ... I will see if next week I can push it myself a little harder. I was not actually running 'easy' - but it wasn't really hard either. Dafi has been running by herself for over 4 months while her husband trains, I really thought she needed some company today, I am in awe of her, I usually don't run near the elites -- I come and watch and cheer them on sometimes, but I don't run with them. I think it takes a lot of guts and determination to workout with them all of the time, especially since most of the time she ends up running by herself. But -- not today!!
PM: 4.5 miles easy with Michelle, I introduced her to the Pipeline trail!
Brett Gotcher ran a 10 mile Steady State at about marathon pace - man he was fast. MichelleL ran with some super fast women and had a lot of fun!
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