I ran Lake View with Will, Russ, and Tom (part of the way). Will seemed to be pushing the pace the whole way. Tom and I were content to trail behind, but when he turned back after a couple of miles I was faced with running alone or catching up and running with Will and Russ. I didn't want to run alone, so I chose the latter. I ended up running out in 20:00 (7:42/mi) and back in 19:37 (7:33), for an overall average pace of 7:37/mi for the 5.2 miles. Sasha recommended I not run faster than 8:00/mi for a couple of weeks until my foot heals up, but that doesn't seem to be possible for me when I run with the Novell guys. I do fine on the other days when I run alone or with the neighborhood guys. I have no trouble running slower than even 9:00/mi. Does averaging slower than 8:00/mi for the week count? Probably not. Oh well, at least I'm staying conversational, and my foot still seems to be getting better. I think it was going sub-7:00 (even sub-6:00 for one mile) at the same time I was boosting my mileage that triggered this episode. I think reducing my mileage and running conversational pace only is helping.
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