Easy run. 6:53 am, 45° F, 96% humidity, wind 8 SSE. If I put my Canyonlands Half Marathon time from last March in the McMillan calculator (I use this instead of my recent marathon because the 1/2 time gives me slightly faster paces), it gives me an easy run range of 8:49 to 9:19. That's what I was shooting for this morning. I feel like with all the recovery runs in that last training plan, particularly in the final weeks, I flirted too much with 10:00 pace and I need to get out of that habit and get comfortable running easy a little faster. I managed to barely eek into the target range on my overall pace by virtue of my first mile being too slow, but I ran the rest of the miles just a little bit too fast. Oops. In any case, the run didn't feel as easy as 10:00 pace, but it wasn't too hard. I made sure that I stayed in a 3:2 breathing pattern (in for 3 steps, out for 2) so that I didn't expend too much effort. And I felt good when I finished, like I could have kept going. AP: 8:50. Splits: 9:23, 8:47, 8:44, 8:35, 8:45, 0.09 @ 8:41. In other news, we spent Saturday evening at the urgent care getting this done to my third son:  He was at a friend's birthday party and the friends little brother jumped down the stairs and then told Sam to try it. So Sam did it and bashed his head against the ceiling. Afterwards, the other boy said that he forgot to tell Sam to duck. The gash was about an inch and a half long, as you can see, and about 1/4 inch deep. After the doctor cleaned it up and showed me before he stapled it, I think I was looking at Sam's skull. He was a big hit at church yesterday. The other kids starting calling him Staples.
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