Interesting day. Crashed early last night and slept for 12 hours; the rest of me felt great when I got up but my back had completely locked up and took more than an hour to loosen. Then my wife and I spent some time planning the trip that will include my flight to Oregon for the marathon, then I worked on my taxes and FAFSA for my son enrolling in college. (Yuck and double yuck). After all that, I was ready to run, but by now there was a time consideration. DW and DS wanted to go to the athletic club, but it was already past 6:30 and the place closes at 8. Got there and got on the dreadmill at 6:50; a little math told me that at recovery speed, I had time to run 7 miles but not 8. So I ran seven, maybe a little faster than I had wanted because of the time constraints. Averaged exactly 9:00 for the seven miles. | 