AM: (9 miles, 1:18:33). Ran the first 7 miles pretty easy then ran the last 2 miles hard. Hard meant that my "landmark" took me 18:23 on the way out and 15:27 on the way back -- I would estimate my pace was somewhere between 7:40-7:45 ... very very hilly (average 250 ft elevation gain over the little over 2 miles) and 8 mph headwinds for the last 1/2 mile. It felt very good to open it up a little! PM: easy 4 Happy Tuesday bloggers. What an awesome track meet on Sunday - both the men's and women's 10K was outstanding!! 3 men broke 27:30 (and they weren't even the winner -- who was awesome, running a 27:11 after breaking away from the lead pack with *7* laps to go!!); all told there were 14 men that got the Olympic A standard (27:45)!!! In the women's race there were 8 women that got the A standard (31:45) with a nail-biting two women show between Sally Kipyego and Shalane Flanagan for the win (Sally won in 30:38, Shalane ran 30:39)! There just are not enough track 10K's ... so in a World Champs year the ones that are open (to non-university runners) are just stacked and SOOOO exciting! So ... last night we were watching a stupid comedy show (basically we had about 1/2 hour before bedtime and were kind of just killing time). All of a sudden a mouse came "walking" through the living room. I started laughing and sort of 'lightly' screaming at the same time. I got up and found Titus-the-cat running around looking under my briefcase ... apparently he brought it in and then unknowingly lost it!! it took 15 mins but I was able to catch it (using a tupperware bowl) and release it outside where he/she belonged. We have 3 animals in this house -- you would think that at least one of them would be competent enough to keep out mouses wouldn't you?
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