6 miles on the treadmill this morning. Was planning on doing some kind of speed workout outside. But I woke up on the wrong side of the bed as they say and just didn't want to ... so I didn't.
10.2 miles tonight around the DC. My plan was to do 1 mile on the way over at LT pace and then make an run at my DC to River Road 2 mile PR of 10:13. But... things didn't go as planned.
Started out with the 2.5 mile warm up over to the middle of B-hills. Then got going on the first mile.
4:52- Yikes I only wanted to hit like 5:05 or so. Hard enough to open up the lungs but not kill anything. So this ended up too fast. Jogged from there about 2 miles over to the DC. While jogging over things felt hard and I was really negative about hitting the 2 mile.
1.3 @- 4:52 pace.... and then I stopped. Got out on the 2 mile. Started out at what felt hard but seemed controlled pace. Although I felt like I was working really hard and didn't feel like I was going anywhere. Pace seemd slow. I never once looked at the gps. So coming into the mile I decided to stop- thinking I was just way too slow.... then my watch flashed 4:49 for the mile and as I stopped I then hurried to get going again. Now thinking shiz... I can kill my PR. But it only lasted like .3 because I just couldn't get going again. And something just said stop Clyde. So I did.
So kind of bummed I just didn't finish off that mile and most likely would have got a new PR... and I'm just mad at myself for not running smarter and watching the watch to see where my pace was. Kind of a failed effort. But I did get the lungs open. And was able to get some of the junk left over from last weeks sickness to come out. Got the legs to turn over too. Just not for very long.
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