Went out at freaking early again (cold!) and ran to the summit light and back - I really like that run! Concentrated on keeping my shoulders and arms relaxed, esp. on uphills, not favoring my left leg and pushing the second half of all miles. No watch, but it felt fast and good. (DST 211.6) Mark taped my leg right before practice, so I was a bit late and had to hurry through warmup, stretches and exercises (50,100) and neglected agilities. Went long today out on the river 8-miler, my goal was to keep it around/slightly under 8:00/mi avg. which I managed kinda with an avg. of 8:02/mi. Guys started before us, so it was hard-ish at the beginning with nobody around, then I caught up to Jeff and it was really nice to run with him until he stopped for a drink, then I caught Willy, but he was too chagrined to be caught by a girl and sped up like crazy when I started running with him. Ha! Then I passed some people who had done the 6 miler! Ha again! Really good run today, worked hard keeping the last mile on the industrial road uphill faster - 8:20-ish. I'm not really sure if the tape helped at all, it felt basically the same, but I'm going to leave it on for a day or so and see if anything improves. (Alchemy 164.9)
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