My left hip flexor has been weird this week - when I sit down for awhile and then get up, it has weird twinges until I walk around for a minute. When I start running it's completely fine after 30 seconds - 1 minute of jogging but very awkward until then. Anyway, because of that I decided to go easy today and just do a couple at goal pace.
But it was one of those days where you just keep noticing the pace drop, feeling great, and don't want to slow down. Oh well - here's what ended up happening: 8:42, 8:11, 8:02, 7:50, 7:37, 7:33, 7:28, 6:47. Average mile - 7:46. I really only sped up purposefully on the last half mile to get the sub-7, the rest is just what the legs wanted to do. My breathing was nice and easy, too ('til the last 0.5), which I'll take as a promising sign. Hip isn't any worse either, probably just something to keep an eye on.
If I end up running the race next weekend without the Garmin again, I really gotta watch out for this tendency and reel it back if I see anything below 7:40 or so early on.
WM - 45.7 | 
