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It was hard at the beginning my legs were still heavy and slow, after a couple of miles I started going a little bit faster and I finished with the last mile at 4:30/km. I hope it means recovery is really under way. As a side note last night for the first time in a couple of years I slept for 12 hours, and this didn't help. The weather was incredible I was running in shorts and short sleeves with temperatures around 70°F.

Tonight it was a strange run.

I was wearing shorts and shirt because temperatures were around 50F even though was raining on and off all day. After 5 minutes I was under an heavy downpour that lasted for the next 3 miles, after that I started freezing and I kept running a little bit faster each lap just to try to warm up, after 3 more miles I was almost dry, almost warm and I didn't realize I wasn't tired at all. I finished 6.5 miles really happy to have done some many miles on a bad night.

On the way home tonight I felt fine, my legs were kind of fresh after sitting for 4 hours at a meeting, and outside conditions looked great no rain, clear skies, crisp temperatures and a light breeze. I decided to go out and test again some speed with a mini tempo run. I wanted to do 5 miles in 36 minutes, goal marathon pace, and at the end I exceeded my expectations finishing in 34:21. I started on pace and then I progressively accelerated to hm/10 k pace. At the end I could have kept the pace for another 5 miles but I didn't want to exaggerate and finished with a couple of km walking enjoying the cool crispy air.

7 easy miles at night. Tomorrow is a holiday so it means a morning run with hopefully some sun.

Today is a holiday and I took advantage of it going running in the morning when the sun was up. Temperatures were around 65F with a light breeze. I met one of the organizers of the Trail marathon I did in april and we did a few miles together, I discovered that the trail "marathon" was actually longer the 26 miles more around 27.5 miles. That doesn't change anything but I feel a little bit better about my performance, I thought I didn't slow down at all during the second half and still I was 10 minutes slower at the end, now I have the explanation. Good day overall so far.

Rest day. 2 miles just to go out and loosen up my legs.

I wanted to restart my marathon training with a long run with most of the miles at marathon pace. I woke up with a thick fog no more than 10m of visibility and 51°F with 100% humidity. I drove to the lake where everything is usually worse, more humidity (if possible) a couple of degrees (celsius) lower and thicker fog. I was alone and really felt lonely in this surreal/eerie place. I did a repeat style training run and surprisingly all this negative things made me stronger, since my warm up km I felt really strong and determined and the fact that I was the only human being out there gave me some extra mental power.  

1k (warm up) 5:37/km

5k 4:28/k + 3"

1k 4:57/k

5k 4:28/k 

1k 4:59/k 

5k 4:30/k

1k 5:04/k

6k 4:25/k + 3"

Overall a great workout 15.5 miles in 1:54:10 at 4:34/k. I was really strong at the end.