morning - 23 Pecan Farm (20). Clyde, Steve, Mike, Kimz, and I met at my house and started out on the 20 miler with sights on just finishing with no real push at the end of a LONG week. Pretty much hit 7:00's + for the first 1/2 - Kimz dropped off at 6 and head to his house for a 10 (my high school kids are hitting some good solid mileage - but I wish the others would have ran with him this morning). I GU'ed and quick water at the highway, about 11, and we started up the hills. The Purgatory Hill was over 2 miles long and we mastered it. Picked pace up a little to about 6:50 for the first mile and then we just kept increasing with Clyde and my leads and brought the next mile to 6:20 with a lot right at 6:00. In felt great to increase speed and get the HR moving even though it was a long uphill. Then Clyde and I settled to 6:30's for the next few by Coral Canyon. After finishing, 21, I went to find Mike (who had run his longest week ever) and Steve had grabbed him, so I just circled around Washington for a couple miles. Just HAD to reach 120 since I was so close. (Stratus red 114.3)
Highest Mileage Week Ever! I am pretty stoked about it. And the end of the week was actually better than the first of the week.
Goals for next week: Mileage is going to drop back to 110. I want to hit another set of good hills, and I need to get a better set of miles. But all things considered, training is going well, and I just want to keep putting in some solid mileage as track is picking up.
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