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8:23 pace, 74F.  I travel to Wyoming tomorrow for 2 weeks; not sure if they'll have wifi there since it's a pretty small Army camp.  They don't always have the nice amenities we're used to in the AF.  If not, will catch up with everyone in a couple weeks.  Have a good holiday!

So I had to pay a little for it but they do have internet in the bunks here.  I ran at 4pm and it was only 72 degrees, nice and overcast and a bit breezy.  The elevation here is 4400 so about a half-mile higher than home but I didn't notice much of a difference while running.  Anyway I think I ran everywhere I could, but it's a small camp; I called it good enough at 4.80 once it started sprinkling on me.  8:02 pace.

I might try to run in the morning but we have pretty early starts here and some other complicating factors so we'll see.

8:17 pace in the early evening.  I'll take tomorrow off and make it a 5-run week since my hip can't quite seem to make the last needed repairs to itself.  The hamstring and groin on the same side as the bad hip have been getting a little tight lately so a day off is probably a good idea; I can make it 6 runs next week.

The training I'm doing here involves a lot of running around, crawling, etc with heavy gear and equipment on so I can tell it's taking a bit of a toll on my hip each day.  So I'm still running but am ready to call it quits if I feel it getting worse.  As for my run...

8:11 avg pace.  I sped up to HMP (7:38) for a mere half-mile to see what it was like.  Oh man, it felt like 5K pace.  I sure hope altitude at least has a little to do with that.  Not that I expected to be in the same shape as I was for my race, but it was eye-opening nevertheless.  It's too bad I can only find time to run in the evenings here; it's only 5 degrees cooler than the early mornings in Abilene.  Thankfully, it's also overcast here all the time so still an improvement.

Today's training was less strenuous so my hip felt better afterward; thus I did another 6-miler in the evening.  I was feeling quite slow and heavy for the first 3 miles but started picking it up unconsciously and even finished with a pretty comfortable 7:49 final mile, the fastest full mile since my injury.  Average pace was 8:15.