LM warmup, 15 miles in 1:52:14, 7:29/mi, HR 156, with last 2.5 miles hard in 3:08 (down), 6:22 (down), 6:48 (up). 1.5 mile cooldown walk w/ dogs & stretching. Finally succumbed to the fact that Saturday's are too busy to get my long run in....spent the better part of the morning and afternoon at appliance & home stores, so by the time I got back home, I was in no mood (and had no energy) to get a 15 miler in. So an unscheduled rest day it was, and I just shifted my entire schedule to the right one day. Today's weather was nicer, so just overcast, intermittent sprinkles, cool (46F). Ran up into the state forest lands, so a good steady climb for the first 6.5, steepening (is that a word?) the last 1.5 of those miles, reverse the next 6.5, and the fast finish over 2.5 miles with some slope but pretty tame. Felt weak the first 3-4 miles, got a good (first) wind going to finish off the climb, decent the next couple of miles on the downhill until about 9 overall when my legs started feeling tired. Pushed thru until the 12.5 mark, then unleashed what I had left. Felt like legs just wouldn't go any faster but the lungs wanted too for the first 1.5 (downhill), then the last 1 was just hard.
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