I ran 6 easy miles solo on my serpentine course this morning. I don't know where Larry was this morning. There was a light covering of powdery snow. It squeaked with each step in the quiet morning, and also seemed to cushion each step. It actually seemed to provide pretty good traction, too. I was thinking this morning about how slow my training pace has been this winter, and how I have still managed to maintain fitness well enough to run Painter's pretty well a couple of weeks ago. One thought that crossed my mind was that at a slower pace I'm actually spending more time training per mile. For example, at a 7:00 minute pace I run six miles in 42:00 minutes, while at a 10:00 pace I run six miles in 60:00 minutes. That's 18:00 additional minutes of training. So while my mileage and pace have been down, my overall training time has held pretty steady. (I think this is what is known as rationalizing.)
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