7 miles at 5am. It was really quite nice this morning. The roads were mostly wet. I decided to avoid the JRP in favor of the roads. I figure that the JRP was more likely to be slick and iced over. I felt better this morning that I've felt in a while. I had enough in me to push it on the last mile. 3 months ago I would have run a 7:30 with that effort. This morning I barely made it under 8:00. My speed is gone and with only 2 months of real training before Utah Valley I only have time to build stamina so I won't be fast. Oh well. As for last week, I got in 24 miserable miles. I decided to take Friday off because of how bad I felt after Thursday's 10. Then my wife made me promise not to run on Saturday. She said I needed to rest and I didn't push back too hard. So I was 16 miles short of the 40+ I wanted to do. Crap. I've got to do better this week. I hope I have built up enough red blood cells to get me through 45 or so miles this week. | 