General Aerobic run. 5:13 am, 25°F, 50% humidity, wind 3 SE. I slept last night without any chemical assistance, so I was able to get up and run this morning. In the past I've designated some days as easy days, but my easy days tended to not be all that different in either distance or pace from a lot of my harder days. Since I started this current marathon training plan a week and a half ago, I've done real recovery days for the first time, where I've really drastically reduced my distance and pace. I'm liking having more of a contrast between hard and easy days because it's letting me pick up the pace more on my hard days. I somewhat arbitrarily decided to classify anything slower than 8:30 as slow miles and anything faster than 8:30 as fast miles today. I actually don't know my pace on the last .16 because I neglected to stop my watch and so I deleted that lap, but I'm assuming it was fast. In any case, I know I ran that last bit pretty hard. AP: 8:44. Splits: 9:07, 8:57, 8:45, 9:00, 8:51, 8:37, 8:30, 8:34, 8:15.
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