Another long run bites the dust. Met up at the Summit Gym and did a 20 miler with Steve and Aaron. Started out into the fields and basically hit our summer tempo loop back over to River Road. Then basically another loop on the Thursday club loop down into Bloomington. Pace kind of just stared a little faster than normal and just kind of stayed uptempo all run. We had a lot of bathroom stops in the first 12 miles which made it hard to get going then stop then try to get going again then stop.... But by the time we got to the DC on the way down with roughly 8 miles to go we had our "issues" worked out and were able to keep a solid push back- down to Man-o-war, up to Pilot and back up the new trail to River Road. Had at least 12 miles at 6 min or faster pace with the last two at 5:25, 5:28 to finish off the tempo. Then one mile cool down. Ended with a 6:15 avg for the 20 miles. So all around a pretty solid run at the end of my roughest week so far this year- with kind of being sick and very dehydrated a couple times over the week. Just about to the taper. One week to go. | 