This is my big week, I am hoping to peak at 70 miles prior to SGM and this is the week. I am traveling most the week so I am changing my normal routine up a little. Mondays are usually recovery days but with the holiday I had a chance to get some mileage in. The original plan was to warm up, do some tempo and then cool down, but with my hip I decided to do easy miles. The hip is much better today do to plenty of massage yesterday but it took a few miles for the tightness to wear off. I ran with Paula for the first 8 and we did a very nice job staying just around 9 min miles with the first mile slow because of the warm up. Stopped back at my house for a gu and drink and then went to finish. I was able to keep it slow for a few miles but it didn't last long and I started picking up the pace and my splits for the second half were 8:43 (1.25 miles up hill), 8:37, 8:14, 7:57, 8:05, 7:42, 8:06. Not quite so good at taking it easy but the hip held up nicely. We had started late, 7:00 am, so that I could get some "heat" training in and I seemed to do okay but after about 5 miles into the second half of the run I could have used some water. Ave Pace: 8:45 Happy Running!
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