Medium-long run. 9:34 am, 36-43°F, 55-45% humidity, winds calm, except South at 7.8 mph around mile 4 (during which time I was heading south). I've been a bad, bad girl. I stayed up way too late last night for no good reason. When I finally went to bed at 1 am, I thought it would not be a good idea to get up 3 1/2 hours later to run 14 miles. So I recent my alarm for 6:30 so that I could get 5 1/2 hours of sleep. Still not enough, but better than 3 1/2. When I got up, I worked for about 3 hours and got the kids off to school, and then went for my run. I overdressed just a little bit. I'm just to used to it being really cold when I run. Not that it was fantastically warm when I ran today, but it was sunny, which I am not used to. I decided to just run at a moderate effort, and that worked out pretty well until about the last 4 miles, and then it got hard. Michelle passed me in her car and honked and waved when I had just finished the 12th mile, and I was hurting at that point. I'm going to take it slow at easy for the next 3 days so that I'll be ready for a MP long run on Saturday. AP: 8:32. Splits: 9:22, 9:01, 8:42, 8:28, 8:41, 8:26, 8:31, 8:27, 8:13, 8:23, 8:25, 8:24, 8:28, 8:20. I wish I could run comfortably in my supposedly Steady State pace range (8:04 to 8:18), but I'm not quite there. Today's run was about as close as I can get.
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