Today's plan called for 4 MP miles and as I laid in bed gearing up to go run, I was rationalizing my way out of them - I ran long yesterday, I can do them tomorrow and on and on. Once I got up and going, I knew I would get them in. I ran a mile and then dropped my water bottle at CVS and then did another warm up mile. About half way through the second warm up mile, I looked down and my pace was in the high 8's and the effort was hard and I was seriously considering backing down, but decided to give it a try. As usual, I cannot run MP - I am either too fast or too slow, so today's ended up being MP turned fast tempo. Splits were: 7:34, 7:41, 7:23, 7:23. I had to tie my show in the first mile and stop and cross a busy road in mile 2 and then I did have a longer than appropriate break in between miles 3 & 4 while I crossed a busy intersection and stopped and got a drink from my stashed water bottle. I then cooled down 2 miles to home and I was tired. The last mile went on and on and on.
The Good: I rang strong and hard and pushed through. I did a loop so route, so it was very honest. The Bad: I cannot stick to MP and I had too long of a break in between miles 3 & 4. The Interesting: My pace for the entire run was 8:12, which was the pace for my first marathon - SG in 2008. I never ran a training run at that pace during that training cycle, but I do not feel near ready to run a marathon at 8:00 pace either. Lunch: 3 easy miles on the treadmill at the Y. Yoga.....
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