Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

42F, N 15 mph.  7:25 AP.  I waited to run until after church and it turned out to be a really nice day to run.

I had 2 hours and 14 minutes to think about my training a little.  Something Sasha said on the message boards kind of turned on a lightbulb for me, that my 5k time was a problem.  I think for most of this past year, even though my race times have been stagnant, my aerobic threshold has actually been improving.  That's why it feels like my "easy pace" is getting faster and faster.  It's been closing the gap on lactate threshold, which has NOT been improving.  Neither has 5k pace, vo2 max, etc.  I have not done enough to address those other paces and it's kind of putting a ceiling (or a floor?) on how fast I can run a marathon.

Anyway, the training I have on tap now should address those shortcomings (thanks, Jake).  I have 2 big LT workouts planned before the Houston HM in a few weeks.  Then I will keep hitting the other systems more consistently (as I've been doing the past few weeks) while shifting the focus to MP.  Don't want to jump the gun yet, but I might even consider a longer 5k-focused cycle instead of a marathon cycle next fall (as painful and terrible as that sounds).