Met the group at Palo Parkway in Boulder. 50 degrees and drizzly off and on. Perfect running weather. 20 minute warm up, stretching, strides 4X7 minutes at half marathon pace. Went back and forth on a road that was pretty flat but had one nice quarter mile hill in the middle. First interval went downhill in the middle, I did 6 minute pace. Second one was flat with an uphill in the middle 6:10 pace. Third back down 5:55 pace. Fourth back up, 5:56 pace (I pushed a little harder on the last one). The group felt kind-of spread out today maybe just because the intervals were a bit longer than usual. I was pretty much in no man's land but it was good to see John and Jeff pushing the pace out in front of me. Coach D is recovering from his first half-iron man so he was a bit behind me. My achilles is still slightly tight but not too bad. | 