AM - 20.5 miles. 3 up, 26.2K (16.3 mile) Tempo in 1:29:11 (5:28/mile avg, ~97-98% of MP), 1+ down back home. Splits - 5:33, 5:33, 5:31, 5:29, 5:29, 5:25, 5:26, 5:29, 5:25, 5:29, 5:29, 5:30, 5:30, 5:28, 5:31, 5:20, 1:36. Can't shake the cold. Woke up feeling junky again, and called in sick to work (I hate doing that, but I work in a cancer hospital, so its not really ethically a good thing to show up to work sick). I still wanted to get in a solid workout today, since I'd have plenty of time to ice / rest afterwards. This was really my only chance to get in a long tempo effort, so I decided to modify the original session which I had planned to do 4 days ago. Instead of running the whole thing at MP, I thought it would be wiser to run at ~95% of MP. I tried that for the first mile, but 5:35 is just too slow and doesn't quite feel right. So I split the difference. I feel like this was a good workout - I got what I needed out of it, but I didn't go to the well. Deposit, not withdrawal. This little injury / illness setback has really made me think hard about what I'm doing every day - I scrapped my original plan and came up with a new approach for the last month before Phoenix. To a certain extent, I'm embracing the extra challenge. | 
