Starting off the new month low and slow -- three miles at almost 10:00 pace. Just work the kinks out, then some stretching, then early rack time before the 10K in Conway.
This 10K is darn important to me. No, a big PR tomorrow doesn't mean a darn thing when I stand at the line in Newport in four weeks (four weeks! wow!). But I need to know that I can translate all this training into something productive on race day. I had hoped that Hogeye would provide that afffirmation, but it didn't. Maybe I expected too much that day on a very hilly course. But I really feel like I need something in the 43s to validate what I've been doing, to convince me that I haven't been just training for training's sake. And tomorrow is my last chance to do that. | 