Lunch: Flourtown Tempo Loop - 13 miles total w/ tune up workout
Tried the loop in reverse today and it is a good bit faster. I regularly lose 2-3 seconds (or more) on the short steep hill.
4.1 warm up
5 x 1 mile w/ ~2:00 recovery jogs (1:52 average)
5:40, 5:40, 5:42, 5:44, 5:40 (5:41 average)
3 mile cool down
I now wish I was running a half on the open roads but hopefully the bike path/packed dirt course will be okay next Sunday. I would hate to waste my fitness on a crappy course of mud or other factor. Ultimately the focus is the marathon, but I generally revise final goal plans based on a 4-week out half tune up. If I said I was happy with the workout today, that would be an understatement. I had to keep tucking my peacock feathers back into my shorts on my cool down.
Spoke too soon on the sockless factor maybe. 
PM: Off. Grading marathon. Good thing it's fall break.
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