Yesterday was an exercise in frustration. I had to go to McAllen for work and our flight was rerouted to Harlingen (45 min away) due to an electrical storm. I missed my meeting but had to still fly to McAllen and then back to Dallas. Nothing like an entire afternoon flying around Texas for no good reason! I ate horribly and got home around 9:30 exhausted and cranky. When my alarm went off at 5 it took 30 min to talk myself into getting up and running. Arrived at the trail at 6 am and had my run broken into 3 segments. The first was 2 miles out and an another 2 back heading north on the trail. All the group runners where heading in the opposite direction so it was a little crazy but the bugs were not near as bad this way. After these 4 miles did the same thing heading south on the trail and watched the sun rise. GU'd at mile 8 and then decided to follow where the Lukc's Locker and Amercian Cancer society groups run. Headed down around the Colonial and into Tangelwood. Passed lots of people both ways and really enjoyed this part of the run. I started out faster today then normal and had a very hard time sticking around a 9 min pace but did pretty good. I let myself pick it up and run by feel the last two miles - 8:12 & 7:49. After I stretched and got in my car, I realized I probably should have cooled down for a mile and was mad I didn't even think of that. Overall felt better than last week and was 70 seconds faster than last weeks run which was a little easier because I stayed on the trail the entire time. Splits: 9:09, 9:12, 9:06, 8:56, 9:00, 9:00, 8:52, 8:49, 8:44, 8:36, 8:12, 7:49. Avg Pace: 8:47
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