Bret

PM - 9 miles on a pleasant Sunday afternoon.  Last 2 miles at MP.  

AM - 4 miles easy this morning - quite chilly (for Florida) at 56 degrees - I felt like I should have worn gloves.   Did not feel well for most of this run even though it was easy.

PM - 8 more at lunchtime around Feathersound and Carillon.  Soreness in left knee at the start and in my ribs up almost to my right armpit.  Recall having some pain there in the marathon.  Must have a trigger point there that needs to be released.  Anyway, most everything loosen / warmed up and felt fine on an easy comfortable pace.  Very nice weather in the mid 60's and sunny.   Watched a youtube video with Luke Humphrey pitching his Hanson Marathon Method book.  Interesting stuff.   

AM - 3 very light easy miles before work.

AM - 3 miles easy with some striders.  

AM - My family's Thanksgiving tradition:  The Times Turkey Trot is early Thanksgiving morning and my three girls love the idea of going out to do the 5k and then head home and help prepare the meal for the afternoon.  This year Bradlea's sorority little sister came to stay with us, and so she was included in the tradition as well.  I decided to "run" with the four girls in the "Wing Ding" 5k which is the first of 4 races in Clearwater.  We learned after the event that this was her first ever 5k.  But we left "no man behind" and jogged it all together and really enjoyed a beautiful morning.  

Afterwards I stayed around for an hour until the 10k to start.  Not a stellar performance but steady as she goes.  I got a little excited in the first half and blew up a bit in mile 3 which required me to regroup - basically finishing out at marathon pace for the second half of the race with an overall 6:30  average pace.  I would have been satisfied with a sub 40 min effort, but went out too hard and did not have it today.  Meh.  I am only 10 days out from my marathon in Richmond - perhaps expected more than I should have.  Anyway - Time to eat.  Happy Thanksgiving.

AM - 9.25 miles easy on a late morning while the rest of my family was out shopping - I enjoyed an absolutely pristine weather day and a relaxing recovery run.  

AM - met up with my friend Brian who is training for a 100 mile ultra in Wesley Chapel early this morning at the Cypress Creek Nature Preserve.  Temps were in the mid 40's when we started in the dark with headlamps.  I had expected the pace to be a bit slower, but Brian has really been training well over the summer and his weekly mileage is in the 70's now - He claims to have not run that fast in a long time, but he was conversational for most of the run, and I don't know that I would have gone a whole lot faster on some of the more technical parts of the trail. Nice way to start the morning - good conversation.  He's going to do great in his race in January on this trail.