Recovery + Speed - 5 miles w/ 6 x 100m strides. 5:50 am, 43° F, 90% humidity, wind 4 SSE, overcast. This run was good for me. I've been stressed out lately, particularly last night and this morning. The run calmed me down some. But I still have some problems to deal with today. Namely a broken pipe and my in-laws are coming today for my son's high school graduation, which is tomorrow. My son has a bunch of graduation practice and cap and gown pick up and that kind of stuff today. And I've got to work today. Fortunately, my house is still somewhat clean from the work I did for my brother's visit last weekend. I've just got to make sure there's nothing rotting in my refrigerator, because my mother-in-law will go through the refrigerator while I'm at work and then give me a report of everything that's spoiled and tell me she didn't throw it away because she thought I might be saving it for something. It makes me crazy. If I've left it there long enough for it to spoil, I've forgotten about it and am not saving it and don't enjoy hearing a recitation of all of the things I've failed to keep up with in my refrigerator. I ran to the high school track this morning to do the strides. It only took me a little over 2 miles to get there, but I wanted to run 3 miles warmup, so I ran a couple of laps on the track before I started the strides. I might have pushed it a little too hard on a couple of the strides. Incidentally, I have no idea how people maintain 5:30 pace over the length of a marathon. AP: 9:53.
Splits before the strides: 10:36, 10:06, 10:10.
Paces on the strides (recovery pace in parentheses): 6:11 (10:35), 5:56 (9:57), 6:25 (10:30), 6:21 (10:01), 6:15 (10:06), 5:33.
Splits after the strides: 10:08, 0.27 @ 9:34.
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