I only run on days that end in a "y."

Met Dan at Barton Springs for our Monday run.  8 recovery miles on the trail followed by a dip in the Springs after.  Is it summer again?  76 degrees at the start of the run.  High today of 103!

8:24 average pace.  Legs felt pretty good this morning even after 20 miles yesterday.

50 minutes cross-training - spinning class - moderate hard effort.

Wow - 77 degrees this morning @ 5:20 am.  I ran 4 easy miles and then met the group close to Barton Springs pool for mile repeats.  Repeats are on a looped road course through the park complete with some good hills.   We run one direction for one repeat and then run the other way for the next repeat alternating.  2 minutes rest between repeats.

I don't think I did too bad considering the hills and heat.  Since I ran them pretty fast I elected to do 5 instead of 6.

1 mile @ 6:05

1 mile @ 6:00

1 mile @ 6:02

1 mile @ 5:58

1 mile @ 5:50

Followed by 2 mile cool down on the trail.  The swarms of gnats were out in force on the trail - I had to run with my face towards the ground to avoid getting too many in my eyes and/or swallowing them. 

Here are the 2012 Boston Qualifying acceptance times per age group.  Looks like I would have gotten in with my 3:17 at Austin after all.  But if I had known that I would not have run the Marathon to Marathon and gotten a PR of 3:07, either, so it was best that I did not know!

http://www.baa.org/news-and-press/news-listing/2011/september/outline-of-2012-boston-marathon-qualified-performances.aspx

Cooler weather this morning.  It was hard to keep the pace in the recovery range.  

Hot morning, cool morning, hot morning ... let's flip a coin and see - today was pretty warm again. 

I looked back at my pre-Iowa training schedule - wow - I don't remember training that hard - I don't feel like I have trained that hard this time around.  I don't seem as motivated as I was before Iowa.  Some days, like today, I just didn't feel like running, oh well, I guess it will pass.

This run seemed a bit harder than it should have been - maybe my legs are still recovering from the mile repeats.  The heat doesn't help, either.  I wanted to run a progressive run but my legs gave out on me during the last few miles.

9:08, 8:07, 7:43, 7:37, 7:33, 7:28, 7:21, 7:28, 7:05, 7:10, 7:18, 7:18, 7:16, 6:55.

Somewhat cooler morning - nice recovery run.

Well shoot, I guess I need to learn to add because I wanted to be around 50 miles this week and I am almost there without my long run tomorrow.   So much for a recovery week.

My big work project was pushed from last Sunday to this Sunday.  Therefore, I don't think I will be able to the run the 10k race on Sunday.  Bummer.

Nice cool morning.  Since I can't run the 10k tomorrow I decided to run some MGP today.  I arrived late and missed the main group leaving so I was on my own.  Around 2.5 miles I hooked up with Mike Woo - a phenomenal runner in our group.  We ran together to mile 8 where I turned around and he kept going.  We got into a good grove while he talked about strategy for CIM as he has run in in the past.  I turned around and finished out the run on my own.  Just a great morning.  Overall 7:05 pace and that is with a couple warm up miles.  Hills between mile 3 and 5 and coming back from mile 11 to 13.

8:11, 7:50, 7:20, 7:12, 7:07, 6:58, 6:48, 6:59, 6:59, 7:02, 6:56, 7:05, 6:48, 6:39, 6:49, 6:36.