8.1M in 56:19 at 8:30am local time on the beach at Manzanita. Weather was cool, very moist and foggy, and mostly calm. It was so foggy that it was a little hard to judge distances and tell how close to the water you were. There were also quite a few puddles on the beach and little streams flowing into the ocean carving up the sand into little islets.
Average pace was 6:57. 2M warm-up, then 3M at 6:18, 6:14, and 6:00, and 3M warm-down. I was planning to do about 6 miles instead of 3 at the faster pace, but didn't feel strong and I also felt that twinge on the hamstring inside of my knee that has bothered me on and off this summer, so I backed off after 3. Average HR was 148 for the run; for the 3 faster miles it was 152, 157, 161, so I wasn't working that hard - just didn't feel strong.
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