Big workout this morning. Had a big group meet at my house and we did the old freeway loop. Did the first loop in 1:11 just chit chatting and hanging. Tried to relax and not work too hard and save it for the second lap. Then we did a second loop after grabbing some GU and switching shoes. The plan was to do a harder tempo push on the second lap. We didn't go out too hard and hit the first mile in 5:59. Basically everyone stayed together until about mile 3. Then Nick and Aaron moved up, then Logan and Dave and I brought up the rear. By mile 6 I was still only 40 seconds behind Nick and Aaron and wanted to finish strong... But they kept hitting pretty good splits and I wasn't doing the greatest. I passed Logan around mile 8 (he got a blister). Ended up hitting a 5:47 avg and running the 10 mile loop in 57:46. This was a PR for this course. I've ran it 4 times this way since December and my previous best was a 58:33 or a 5:51 avg. I was pretty happy because it felt like most of February I was sick and didn't get a lot of good training in. So it was nice to still see some progress. Spent the rest of the day working on Mylers playhouse... it's still not done but we're getting close.
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