The workout for today called for 5 miles easy. I gather from the book that the purpose of all this slow miles is to build my aerobic capacity and my running volume. Since I have been running 30 miles a week for a while now I'm not sure that the 25 miles on tap for this week is actually going to achieve that purpose. For that reason, and because I was under time constraints tonight, I opted to do the 5 miles at my hoped for MP. Until tonight, that was 8 min miles. I didn't know I even could keep a sub 8 min mile time up for 5 miles. I started out and felt really good. After about 20 seconds I looked at my watch to make sure my pace was on target and found that I was actually running a 6:30 pace. So I slowed down as much as I could until it felt like I would be walking if I went any slower. That worked out to be ~7:35 pace. So I revised my plan and tried to just keep my pace under 8:00 for the rest of the run. I was tired at the end but if my bowels hadn't started acting up I think I could of kept going. Know I think I'm going to shoot for a 7:50 1/2 marathon average pace. | 