I kept the mileage lower today, in part because I want to keep the weeks mileage lower in order to do well at the autumn classic this Saturday, and also to make sure that my leg is fine after it was feeling kind of odd yesterday. The leg felt great during the entire run, as well as afterwards, and I hope that I might not need to worry about it so much any more. Anyhow, I started off fast today. For some reason I just took off, and I went through 1 mile in 6:53. I followed this up with a 6:10 mile and then a half mile in 2:53. I didn't feel like I was pushing it at all, but when I turned around at 2.5 miles I decided to make an effort to slow down. I then hit about 6:30 pace for the next while, before speeding up again with about a half mile to go to finish 5 miles in 32:07. I then went out for 3 miles with Kimia on the bike, and finally slowed down a bit more to finish 8 miles with a total time of 56:04.
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