Penny

Easy miles at 8:30 pace with Kristen around Mission Bay, San Diego. Definitely aerobic; we talked the entire time :)

Easy miles around 8:15 pace

Woosh, this was a good workout. 4x1.5 miles at HM pace with 800m recoveries. I cheated on my last two recoveries a little because I needed the bathroom, and then accidentally switched off my garmin. I dont think the workout was too greatly impacted though.

 Splits were almost the same as last week's mile repeats, which was encouraging:

6:53, 6:54, 6:55, 6:55.

Felt a bit harder than the mile repeats, but that might have been because it was a morning effort and unfueled, which is always a little harder for me than the afternoon hard workouts.

3 very easy treadmill miles (probably around 9:30 pace)

 Iron strength workout: core, plyo, leg strength, arms

Tempo run.... ahhh, this felt tough. Not as tough as last week... but it seems like marathon pace should feel easier. Or maybe Im wrong. I remember reading that Ryan Hall was lamenting he couldnt even hit one mile at marathon pace a few months out from his Boston marathon. 

Anyway, I hit the target, which felt good... didnt feel good doing it, so much. 

The avg pace was 7:18 - exactly the same as last week. Splits were a little wonky again because of the wind. Again my first mile was super slow (7:25 - is it normal to take that long to get into a groove?) and had a few 7:15-17s in there. Overall pace, outside of that first mile, would have been 7:17, so not too much of a difference.

Note to self: sometimes you just gotta get it done. It ain't pretty, it ain't a walk in the park. But its done.

I am definitely feeling the effects of my highest mileage ever. Easy run at about 8:45 pace, on legs that felt like lead!