Went home to muscle shoals (yes the name of the town is misspelled, it should be mussel shoals) AL for fathers day weekend. Found out that my current 8 mile route has a nice gravel/dirt shoulder that I can run on. Went too fast on this run. It was 85F and I averaged 7:36. All I was doing was trying to keep my turnover near 180 and I thought my stride was laughably short. I didn't feel like I was pushing it really. In this heat nothing feels really easy, but Ive been going by Daniels breathing test. If you can do 3 strides per breath in and 3 per breath out and maintain that for a while then the pace is easy enough. Of course, Daniels thinks my easy pace should be 7:15-7:25 which is just not the case. It is especially not the case with heat, hills, and slow but soft running surfaces. Wish I was up in RI to do the trail race tomorrow. Bedoukian will gain fitness on me with that probably. I need to think about what my workouts will be this week actually. I am racing 18 miles on saturday, so wednesday I should do VO2max. So sunday 8.2 + monday 9.75 + tuesday 6.2+6.2 + wednesday 6.2+7 + thursday 8.2 + friday 5 + saturday 18 = 74.75 maybe too much. I could cut one of the 6.2's(3 to work + 3.2 around campus) down to 3 if im feeling tired. But I like doubling 2 days/week for 70mpw. It seems right to me especially in this heat. My last long run was the trail marathon, but it wasn't too long ago so I should be fine for the 18 miler.
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