Little different run tonight. Explored some new territory in the neighborhood I had not yet run over, although I'd certainly driven it. Started looping in the park -- short loop, medium loop, lake loop, then went out the back and down West End. But instead of turned back onto Overo off Backus, I kept going all the way to Silent Grove, then down the big hill. it ended up being a pretty good progression run. That big hill helped; because of it, my pace for the final .46 was 7:09. but my pace for mile 8 without benefit of the hill was 8:32.
Have to work all weekend and there's another football game, so I'm gonna have to work my runs in around those items. Probably will do 12 tomorrow after work, 6 Saturday afternoon between work and the game, and 18 Sunday afternoon after work. Good thing I really don't care about the NFL (also good thing it's supposed to really cool off Sunday, although I have no complaints about the temp right now -- 51).
Figured out last night that as the training schedule works out, I'll go over 2400 miles for the year DURING the race in Memphis. Appropriate, I think. Also figuring out a pacing schedule, with a conservative start and a slight fade. Let's see if I can make myself hold to that conservative start. | 