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Snowboarding the whole day in Abruzzo. It was a great sunny day.

Tonight the temperatures were lower again, still above freezing, but spring for now is gone.

8.6 miles in 1:10 in the industrial area.

Another 8 miler at a slow pace, it was not raining but it was humid and coldish.

Tonight I didn't have enough time to run, 4 miles at faster pace in 29:16, 4:33/km. 

Another lazy night, after 4 miles my legs thought it was better going home. I have some lingering aches in the right foot, a knot in the right quadriceps since last december, but overall it is the feeling of being tired that is killing most of my runs. I am not sure if it is just a feeling or I am really tired and I need to rest. For the next month my running schedule will be based on how I feel without crashing and burning myself. I hope I will eventually get better.

Another 4 miler.

This morning I witnessed one of those rare events I haven't experienced in a while: running with two other human beings.

I wanted to do at least a 13 miler, one of the other guy was happy with 9 and the third one was flexible and ended up doing 12.

It was a beatiful morning with clear skies and a strong wind from the north. It was a bit chilly at the start but when we finished we were warm, but no sweat.

We started at 5:30/ km and by the time we finished we were well under 5:00/km as average pace, final time was 4:55/km. Having company most of the time definitively helped me and somehow I think I am on my way back to a decent shape. I am not there yet, this run would have been a great training run if it was the beginning of january, now I am somehow behind my schedule and for next sunday I am not going to change my marathon plan(that is going out at 5:00/km). The best part was at the end when I discovered that my legs were not completely shot and I could have kept the 4:30/km we were pushing during the last 5 km for at least another 5k or longer. I have to be patient and enjoying what I can do right now.