Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

79F.  This is my easy week -- I averaged 67 miles/week over the last 3 weeks so I'll cut mileage back about 20% this week to rest up.

7:39 AP today, pretty evenly paced effort.  I'm getting excited about how certain paces are starting to feel.  I did have the fast shoes on, but this still felt a lot easier than it should've.  Later on in the week I'll do a tempo to better figure out where I'm at.

78F.  8:52 AP.

First day of kindergarten!  She seemed to be doing fine.  The 5-year-old and the 31-year-old, that is.

81F.  Warm morning...if today plays out as forecasted, it will be our 70th day hitting 100F this year.  Maybe by October we'll get some cooler temps.

8:24 AP today - somewhere between recovery and aerobic base effort.  The best part about this rest week: no double today.

80F.  8:06 AP.  Meh.  I put on the go-faster shoes thinking I might do a tempo but was not feeling it at all.  It was dark, early, hot, whatever, and I could just never get going, so I just let the legs do whatever they wanted.  I'll take it easy tomorrow and go fast on Friday whether I feel like it or not.

81F.  Kind of a slow, refreshing run this morning just before sunrise.  8:55 AP.

76F, 80%.  Geez, everytime it drops a few degrees we get some humidity with it..

Anyway, I needed a good laugh so I figured I'd try the last 6 @ GMP today (7:03).

First, a brisk 6-mile warmup @ 7:56 AP.

Then 6 GMP @ 6:56 AP.  Splits were 6:57, 7:05, 6:55, 6:54, 7:01, 6:40.

7:26 AP for all 12.

Weeeell, let's face it - GMP is pretty much tempo pace right now.  Yeah, I know it'll get cooler but there's still a ways to go before 7-minute miles = MP.  Overall, not a bad run though.  I had to start today at 4:30am so the run was completely in the dark -- with the Garmin 405 I have to lock the bezel in the summertime due to the sweat flying...that means I can't turn on the light and use it for pacing.  The only glimpse I get of my pace is when it beeps each mile and lights up.  No street lights where I run.  So one positive takeaway is that I (more or less) set the right pace without looking.  Just wish it wasn't such a miserable-feeling pace.