Slept in just a tad with the house to myself this morning. Will coll weather in advance of (another) line of stroms coming in, I got in a 6-miler on the RT. Started out very slowly; by the end I was sub-GMP. Go figure. Anyway, this "back-off" week is going to end up somewhere in the 73-75 mile range. Not sure exactly which because I'm running with Pat tomorrow and he's not sure either. He's doing mile intervals at a bit under HIS GMP, which for me should be no real problem (that would be about 8:50 for him), and with warmup and cooldown, it should be in the 16-18 range. So I'll go with him, unless thunderstorms intervene, and we'll see how far we go. Next week, I think I'll probably do a 15 on Tuesday and then back down from there in a mini-taper for Hogeye. Something like 10-9-15-7-9-8-6-13.1. Which is still a 64-mile week leading into a half. Then a couple of recovery days after that before I knock out an LT and a 24 at the end of the following week. 13.1-7-8-13-12 LT-8-24 equals 85, my big week of the entire cycle. | 