Routine recovery run at 9:30 pace. No problem with the feet today, although they both look like hamburger after yesterday's sock-free last 3 miles. I'm tweaking the schedule again to allow a better taper for Dam Night Run. Recovery tonight, run two hard nights in a row on Monday and Tuesday, a recovery run on Wednesday, off Thursday-Friday, then an easy jog Saturday morning before going to Arkadelphia. I just realized this will be my first race in (OK, near) my hometown since, oh, April 1976. This was going to be a back-off week anyway. I think yesterday showed me I really needed a back-off week right now, so now's a good time. Then I go back to hammering next week. The goal for Saturday is sub-22:00. I'll try to run the first two miles at right around 7:00 pace, then hopefully put the hammer down on the downhill third mile to get under 22. Maybe, if I can carry out that plan well enough, quite a bit under 22. | 