Yes. I'm counting that .04. I picked up Devra and drove to Orem to run with Jen Hughes. We are both running CIM. We ran an out and back on the Murdock Canal. What a beautiful place to run. It's generally flat, with just a little roll to it. I ran 10 x 1k yesterday, so I knew I would feel flat today. I planned on easing into it, but Jen was there to run hard. There are many different schools of thought to Marathon training. Jen comes from the low mileage, high intensity school of thought. After a 7:37 warm up mile, we started clicking off low sevens. It was a little more intense than I had planned on, but I could deal. We were at 7:04 average at the turnaround. I felt good about continuing at that pace. Jen had other plans. I admit to being a pace pusher, but Jen came to run hard this morning. After a few sub--sevens, we started throwing down 6:40's. My wheels were coming off hard asI tried to hold on for dear life. At mile 19, Jen said she wanted to pick up the pace some more. Devra and I let her go for it. I still finished my last mile in 6:36. Just to provide a picture of the run, here are the splits: 7:38, 7:01, 7:03, 7:01, 7:01,, 7:03, 7:02, 6:55, 7:03, 6:57, 6:56, 6:55, 6:55, 6:50, 6:45, 6:40, 6:44, 6:44, 6:48, 6:37. 6:55 Average pace. I'm going to need a couple of days to recover from this one. This was really hard at the end of a long, tough week. I was wondering how Jen felt so frisky. She told me she just ran a mile yesterday in preparation for today. Ah. Fresh legs. Like I said, there are different schools of thought to marathon training. She definitely took it to me today. I was not mentally or physically prepared to run that hard! | 