AM - 4.5 mi easy.
PM - 13 mi. Last big workout before Utah Valley. Plan was to do 2 x 5 miles @ MP. I usually do tempo runs on the Jordan River Bike Path, but figured it was probably flooded, so I drove out west of the airport and started from Exit 111 and ran on the frontage road (where the SLC Track Club does the winter series races). I rode west 2.5 miles on my bike and marked out 1/2 mile splits with chalk on the road. I figured I'd do out & back loops. It was pretty windy, but since I was running east to west and back, and the wind was primarily from the south, it was more of a cross-wind. (1 mile warmup)
Rep #1 - 5:21, 5:21, 5:15, 5:21, 5:09 = 26:37
(1 mile recovery)
Rep #2 - 5:13, 5:11, 5:18, 5:18, 5:09 = 26:09
(1 mile cooldown) The hay is in the barn now, so to speak. This obviously ended up being a bit faster than marathon pace, but I felt totally in control the whole time, and was actually surprised it ended up being so quick. But not too surprised, b/c I feel like I've jumped to a new level, and this is where I'm at now. Between the 10K on Saturday, a big negative split longer run on Sunday, and this workout today, I've done quite a bit of quality running in the past 4 days. Now its time to rest and not doing anything silly in the next 10 days :-)
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