Recovery day today. My goal was to keep it around an 8:30 pace per mile throughout the whole run. I ended up with an 8:17 average pace and it felt really comfortable, my route had a couple of small hills but nothing of real difficulty. My splits went as follows; 8:22,8:26,8:33,8:20,8:06 I don't know what happened on that one, and then 8:19, and finished up with an 8 :17 total time was 58:29. I was surprised at how comfortable the pace felt especially after yesterday's hard workout, I also did some strength training yesterday on my legs, so I was really surprised at the amount of strength that I had left in my legs.
Finished with 40 minutes of upper body weight training on my bowflex, I am going to try a longer run tomorrow maybe 10 miles. I want to see how well my legs hold up and I would like to try a double digit run for a change which I haven't done since the St. George Marathon, so we will see how I am feeling after tomorrow. | 