Medium-long run with unpremeditated speed up. 7:38 am, 27-38°F, 60-35% humidity, winds calm, foggy/cloudy. Oy vey. What have I done? Right now I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I was in bed for 8.5 hours last night, but I didn't sleep well on account of my stuffy head. At least the run cleared my sinuses, for now. Both Michelles were unavailable this morning, so I just met Carly at the trail. I made Carly do my funny-looking dynamic stretches with me out in the open and then we ran 8 miles together. When Carly left, I made a pit stop, blew my nose, and got a drink of water in the rec center, and then I went back out on the trail for 7 miles by myself. When I started running by myself, with no forethought whatsoever, I decided to pick up the pace a little. The main thing was that I was in a hurry to be done. The other thing that there was a runner right at the beginning that I could pass without trying too hard and that got me going a little faster, so I decided to just try to keep it at about that pace. I guess I'm all into passing other runners lately because when I was on the way back of the out-and-back on my own, I was coming up on the 2 mile post, which meant 2 miles to go for me. There was a guy approaching me coming the other direction, but when he got to the 2 mile post he turned around, so then he was in front of me. I thought maybe I could pass him but it turned out he was going a pretty good clip, so after a while I settled into just keeping up with him, a little distance behind him. But then with a little less than a half mile to go, he slowed down or I sped up or something because I passed him and stayed ahead of him the rest of the way back to the rec center. AP: 9:28. Splits: 10:14, 10:10, 10:10, 10:06, 10:10, 9:57, 9:56, 9:46, 8:57, 8:56, 8:41, 8:57, 8:52, 8:47, 8:09 (I guess I sped up in that last mile.) I have a feeling that this run used all the energy alotted to me for the next couple of days and now I'm going to crash and be utterly useless.
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