Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

Got out early to beat the heat - it was still 79, but without sun for most of the run.  I ran an 8:28 pace, feeling pretty fresh at the end so it looks I'm getting my lungs and legs back in shape little by little.  This should be my last week to run in the states this year so I'll try to make it count!

An ice-cold 73 degrees for this morning's run.  8:08 average pace - felt great the whole time.

Bonus run - got a late start but it was still low-mid 70s so I got in a short run.  8:20 pace.  Now I can take tomorrow off and get in 3 more this week.

73 degrees, ran before the sun came up.

I want to start running a lot of 7:15 miles since that is my BQ pace.  I'm realistically at least a couple years away from being able to hold that pace for a marathon but I figure it's 10K pace now, and maybe HM pace by the end of the year if I can keep running uninjured.  So I set out to do just 2 today and failed already!  I could tell by my out-of-breath warmup miles it wasn't my day, but I still gave it a go and started to lose my form around 1.2.  The old me would've pushed through it but the new me now knows that running like that causes injuries.  That, and I'm lazier.  Anyway my stamina is clearly in the toilet after the injury layoff so back to the grind of easy miles for awhile.  Overall pace 8:23 for the 6 miles.

Temps in the mid-70s and muggy, but with 100% cloud cover.  I just slogged/shuffled through 5 miles at an 8:43 avg pace.  Last night I ate chili-cheese fries for dinner.  The styrofoam container it came in, with all its contents, probably weighed a good 2 or 3 pounds.  So good.

For my last run tomorrow I'll try to make it 8 miles or so.

Ditto the weather from yesterday.  I took it nice and easy to maximize the enjoyment.  That, and I haven't run this far since April so I wanted to finish!  I kept it solidly in the 8:40s for the first 6, then threw in some bursts of speed in the last couple miles.  8:37 pace overall.

Fun day planned with the family today, then I'm outa here tomorrow.  Hopefully I will have some miles to blog by the end of next week.  Have a great holiday all!