I let myself sleep in a little bit this morning to 6:00 since I was planning on fewer miles. I woke up with a dull ache in my back on the left side about mid way up. Not anything too bad, just annoying. I warmed up inside with some time on the rowing machine and stationary bike then headed outside. Plan was to try and do an easy and consistent pace today. First mile felt pretty good as far as first miles go. Second and third miles didn't feel much better, but not too terrible either. Sometimes, the day after a hard day can feel very easy and relaxed, unfortunately today was not one of those days. It was nice and cool outside, about the same temp as other morning recently but a little bit of fog had rolled in. This is good because for most of the past week it was very dry. Splits for today were: 8:40, 8:20, 8:20, 8:30, 7:55, 8:15, 8:07, 0.27 @ 8:47 Actually, the 7th mile felt pretty good, and was a little bit faster than 8:07 due to the time spent waiting for the traffic light to change. Brooks | 