Met Heather at 5:45, little valley loop w/ some add on to make longer. 9:40 average pace. Temp. was good and I liked meeting earlier. Gave me time to stretch afterwards before rushing to get kids ready for school. Struggled a bit with the run, just feeling slow and sluggish- like I have bad form. Maybe I'm not sleeping enough- only averaging 6.5 or 7 hrs. a night. Like Lybi pointed out once, that's like missing a night's sleep 1x a week! I gotta get better at this. My arches are a bit sore. Think I will take it easy tomorrow (walk) then race the 5k Sat. Not really feeling prepared to race, but want to use this 5K to gauge where I'm at as far as speed and shorter races are concerned. Would love to get around 25 min, but that's probably optimistic for the shape I'm in. My PR is 24:25 from this past spring but then I ran in July and got 26ish (don't remember exact time) So its a grab bag- we'll just have to wait and see! | 