Medium-long run. 4:53 am, 48-39°F, 41% humidity, wind 5 SSE. I checked the temperature before I got dressed to run this morning and it was 48, but I was worried that the temperature would drop during my run. I debated whether to wear long pants or shorts. I finally went with shorts, even though I thought the temperature would drop. Well, the temperature did drop and I was getting cold by the end of my run. I tried to take it fairly slow and easy today because I've got a long marathon-pace run on Saturday. This week is kind of a big week in terms of my training schedule, and so I'm just trying to survive it. Next week is a recovery week. Then I have 5 hard weeks after that before I start cutting back leading up to the race. I sometimes wonder what possessed me to do this training plan. A while ago I put 2 or 3 whole albums that belong to my oldest son on my mp3 player and I haven't listened to them all the way through, so I sometimes hear a song on my mp3 player that I've never heard before. That happened this morning while I was running. It turned out to be a pretty good song for running and made me feel energetic. It's a song by Gogol Bordello called "Suddenly...(I Miss Carpaty)." For some reason I like this weird eastern-European rock. I ran my home/work loop and made a pit stop at the Northridge rec center about 4 miles into the run.
AP: 9:33. Splits: 10:01, 9:34, 9:30, 9:21, 9:45, 9:46, 9:56, 9:31, 9:23, 9:20, 9:08, 9:29, 9:27.
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