man alive sometimes this taper thing kills me! I'm ready for it, just bring it on!!! ugghh...waiting. Had good intentions of going to bed last night, until my 5th grader's History Fair report took over life! Since when did a child's project become a parent's burden? I guess maybe it is my fault since I didn't let her use the computer more (we password protect the computer) to get the final draft done earlier. Lots of editing to do...and adding to get to 4 pages. Final project was sheer perfection -for a 5th grader, even if I did have to stay up until 1AM to help her. I'm a hands off mommy (lots of help and support, but I will NOT do things for you!), so I don't do much...ever :) Still got up early to meet Chad, George, and Paul and RunGR8 for their morning loop. Nice new scenery, 5 mile loop. I saw the first mile come in at 8:30 and figured I was good...kept the effort similar, but ended with an AP of 8:00 after 5 miles. Those boys make me run too fast! Yes, I'm blaming it all on them - no responsibility on me at all, I was just keeping up and chatting and enjoying the perfect weather. We even had a good uphill mile in there, what the heck guys? Can't I run slow? :)
Since I got kicked off the TM early yesterday I wanted to get one more in. Paul took me on a loop (this is his 'hood) and it ended up more like 6.7...so I decided to finish off my .8 so that I can save my .2 for Saturday :) Again, I ran too fast. This wasn't supposed to be a tempo! I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing that I'm running so fast and it just feels nice. I won't say it is easy, but it feels more like what an 8:20-8:30 pace usually feels like. I guess tapers really do work :) AP: 7:59 splits: 8:29, 8:01, 7:55, 7:46, 7:52, 7:57, 7:50 (.8)
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