Second night in a row of bad sleep. Stress and anxiety. Nice. I met the SF group at 5am. Ran with Ali, until she turned around at junk mail. I then ran backwards to meet up with the rest of the group, ran with Dave, Bob, Steve, and Mark until the bottom of Harry's Hill. Tempoed up it and this was the first part of the run where I felt the effects of my bad sleep last night. Sluggish but still marathon pace effort, .87 up in 6:49, or 7:49 pace. Took a gu and drank out of Harry's hose. Darin and Carl came up the hill behind me, but didn't stop much so they were ahead of me at the top. I tempoed down, though the first .25 were slow going. Two miles of downhill, 6:09 reeling them in, 5:48 passing them and feeling frisky (if you are going to pass fast guys you gotta pass them strong, eh). They let me pass, but then decide to go with me so they pull up toward the end of the mile. I had placed a water bottle with a squeeze top at the bottom of the hill with then intent of picking it up and drinking at marathon pace. I thus have another gu less than two miles to practice gu then squeeze bottle. Grabbing the water bottle and carrying it for .2 miles was distracting, but I was able to drink about 6 oz before getting sick of the bottle and tossing it (don't worry I picked it up at the end). Stomach did ok. The pace suffered, probably a combination of a too-fast second downhill mile, the water, and going from downhill to flat. Was able to drop the pace gradually and got a 6:38 mile. All splits per garmin. After the tempo i kept all miles under 8 min pace. I need to get more sleep! ave pace 7:45 ice bath at 57F weight 121
Shoe totals: Red sox: 57.25, Brooks Defyance (Blue): 469.35, Asics Stratus 2.1 (Purple) 97.87, Mizuno WaveRider (aqua) 108.82
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