This was pretty stupid. I meant to go for an 'easy' 13 with a guy from the running club. But this guy is the same guy who pushed the pace below 7 on a run 2 weeks ago. I needed to recover from the workout yesterday, but instead we averaged 6:52 pace for 13.1 miles. And it wasn't a very even pace either. We started out at 7:15 and then slowly dropped it over 10 miles to 6:40 and then slowed a bit to 6:50, 7:05, and 7:15 for the last mile which is mostly a hill. I am glad that I can keep this sort of pace the day after a workout, but it isn't good training. I guess daniels says that marathon pace can be substituted for easy pace occaisionally. So hopefully it wont hurt me in the long run, just for tomorrow's 5k which I was already running through in a serious way. | 