AM - 7.6 miles in sunny (and warm!) Phoenix... Ocotillo golf course loop, then a few short strides. Hanging out w/ my parents today, going to a cactus league baseball game (at the spring training facility where Crockett ran his 48 hr race on New Years) and just taking it easy. The plan for tomorrow is to run aggressive but not be stupid. I anticipate the race being a lot like the Long Beach 1/2 - it will go out fast. I just plan to tuck in behind the leaders as long as they don't go out at sub 4:40 pace. I can take some chances in a 15K that I wouldn't take in a marathon. I didn't really taper too much for this one, as I want to keep my volume up until its Boston taper time, but this was still a nice cut-back week to only run ~100 miles and I feel pretty fresh. PM - 2 miles around the block. Easy breezy, legs feeling snappy. I like when they get this kind of feeling. Proof that I went to a baseball game. It was boring but nice to sit out in the warm sun for a few hours. Our favorite guy was the Rangers' first base coach. We kept yelling at him to send the runners to steal second base, and he kept doing it! Itchy trigger finger! 
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