Recovery + Speed - 7 miles w/ 8 x 100m strides. 5:20 am, 45° F, 75% humidity, wind 4 SE. As usual, it was hard to get out of bed this morning. I was pretty sluggish today, but I managed to pick up the pace for the strides. Fortunately, strides are very short. AP: 9:53. Splits before the strides: 10:31, 10:43, 10:11, 10:09, 9:55, 0.54 @ 9:54. Pace on the strides (with recovery pace in parentheses): 6:00 (10:45), 6:34 (9:42), 6:12 (9:37), 6:33 (9:33), 6:16 (10:26), 6:36 (9:18), 6:09 (9:35), 5:24. After the strides: 0.49 @ 9:40.
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