Big run today. This morning when we met up we had no idea where we would go to. We remembered that Dave and his runners would be doing a run-a-thon at the PVHS track. So we ran the T'bone trail over to the water tank and down into GS then on the the high school. We said hi to the runners there and then started back down to the Dixie Center. I thought that it was going to be hard regardless of what way we went back so we might as well loop the hill and see where we are at. It ended up being a little longer than everyone was looking for. I was able to hold at least a sub 7min pace from the high school to the 20th mile, and then I made myself just relax back to the store. Steve and I also picked it up around the 7th mile for a mile or so of tempo. As we came down out of GS we were rolling at 4:45 pace. I looked at my pace on the garmin and all I saw was the :45 and thought it was 5:45 pace. I said to myself "I feel like I'm running pretty fast for just under 6 min pace." Then I laid it down for anouther quarter and was somewhere around 4:36 or so until Steve wanted to back off. Good thing we did, because there was still a long ways to go. Glad to get a long run in. I've felt like I needed one for a few weeks. It has just been really easy to talk myself out of it so far. Today I didn't have much time to think about it- so I just went along for the ride. This run should give me a good base to taper off and get ready to race the half next week. Chest pain was gone this morning. The ankle/tendon was still sore... but like the rest of the week I just went out and ran on it- for better or worse. | 