5:00 am. Ah, finally done with our show, 1 down 1 to go. Finished up last night but not to late. got to bed by 10:30. Today was a 10 mile race simulation day, my leg is still bothering me quite a bit so I started out slow and just tried to work it out the first mile. 1st mile in about 8:00. I stopped and stretched out a bit when I reached the embarcadaro, started out as fast as my leg would handle, I pushed through the pain and just tried to keep around a 6:30/mile pace. Had a pretty good headwind when I hit Peir 39 but figured that would help on the way back. After the 5 mile turn around point my leg finally got tolerable to run on but still kept my pace slower than I would want a Tempo run pace to be. Ended up running 9.2 miles in 1:00:10 6:32/mile average pace, with the 1 mile warm up 6:40 average. Not to bad considering how bad my leg was hurting, I can barely walk but can some how manage to run a 6:32 pace. Funny. I have my last long run tomorrow (17 miles) and then I'm officially in taper mode. At SFO airport right now coming home for the holiday weekend and then back to San Fran next Tuesday for yet another 2 week show. fun fun...
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