After a couple days of rest & battling a cold, this run was encouraging to me. Taper plan called for 6 miles at easy pace (which I have determined to be 8:30). A half mile into the run, looked at watch & was running a 7:30 pace, so I slowed down a little. For the first time in a long time, my legs felt fresh & ready to roll. I decided to let them go a little, as long as things felt easy. 7:52, 7:35, 7:32, 7:09, 6:36.followed by a 1,6 mile cooldown @ 9:20 pace. Since I was feeling good, I decided to let it go a little the last mile. Even the 6:36 pace felt comfortable and I did not feel like I was pushing things at all. I was tempted to keep going a few faster miles and see how I held up ... but quickly reminded myself I was resting my legs to run faster/longer ... not training them to do that! Felt good, and by keeping the mileage down, I think this still classifies as a recovery run ... tomorrow is another day of rest, but might do an easy 3, as I skipped that on Monday due to weather, having a cold, and a general lack of desire to go out and run 3 measly miles in miserable weather.
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