Early in the morning, rising above the heat...
After staying up till midnight waiting for my son to arrive home, 6:15 seemed a bit early for the alarm to hit. I didn't get on the road till 6:40, after a 10 minute snooze and some toast, etc. Temp was 67; warm, but not awful. Home to BST took me spot on 10 minutes. Nothing like starting off with a 10 minute mile on 10% average grade. I scared up one deer, and ran through a tunnel of dragonflies, darting back and forth through the canopy.
I think I've hit a plateau. All the easy gains in pace are done. I'm really going to have to work in order to get faster. Either that or switch to cycling or swimming or weightlifting to pick all the low hanging fruit in those sports. Or is it just the heat making me so sluggish? Or my crappy diet? Meh. | 