Still feeling the effects from yesterday's hard effort in my GI system, but no real soreness or pain anywhere in muscles. Kept today's recovery run very easy (8:55/mi avg pace); no problems keeping HR below threshold going uphill, and despite speeding up it stayed very low on the downhill. Pace in middle of recovery zone (getting very good at judging this pace on this course). Core exercises following run, then some stretching. Doubts started surfacing during today's run as my mind wandered (of course)...probably due to yesterday's "felt like disaster" run. Kept knocking them down as fast as they surfaced, but it'll be a struggle not to push too hard on a run (to prove to myself that I'm ready) between now and next Sunday. Must stay focused!
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