Got up this morning and ran out to Osborne corner and met up with Rich. It is 5 miles from my house to the corner, I ran the first 5 miles at a nice easy pace. I over dressed this morning, shorts, pants, long sleeve shirt and jacket. By mile 1 I chucked the gloves, mile 2 lost the jacket and by mile 2.5 lost the pants. It felt good to run in shorts, I probably could have ran in a short sleeve shirt but was o.k. with the long sleeve. Met Rich and we decided to run around the golf course and back to Osborne, this is a 5 mile loop. We ran these 5 miles at a 6:58 pace, this was a good pace considering the hills on the last 2 mile stretch plus a good headwind. I left Rich and headed home for the last 5 miles and averaged 6:56 pace. It is getting warm enough in the mornings that anything over 13 will require dropping some water. I think that it is turning cold again tomorrow so I think we will be ok with out water for another week while running? I plan on upping my mileage through the 9th of May and then take it easy the 11th - 15th and then hopefully have a good race at Ogden. Just by increasing my mileage since Monday and eating better I have dropped about 7lbs. I have cut out all sprite and red bull, plus I have been eating smaller portions and have not been snacking through out the day. I feel a lot better and hope to stay around the 140-145 mark until St. George is done!
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