AM- Met up with Logan, Aaron and Clyde at 4:15am this morning to run the marathon course. I've still been feeling off and almost bagged it to run on my own but, I really needed to get a run on the course in.
Started off a little before everyone (they were poop'n). With how I've been feeling I just wanted to ease into the run and wasn't sure how I was going to do. My hips and back have been bugg'n as well. Just hit some low 7's for the first 3 waiting for somebody to catch me. Finally Aaron came up and I picked up the pace a bit. After a few miles at 6:30 I started feeling a bit more relaxed and just cruised it to mile 10 with low 6's to start the tempo.
After fertilizing the sand Aaron and I took off (he took off much faster). I started off slow and wasn't really sure about pushing. I looked back while going up Winchester looking for the guys and Logan was luckly coming up. As he passed I thought I might as well try to have him pull me for a while and make some kind of effort out of it:
5:44, 5:45, 5:49 , 5:26, 5:18, 5:27, 5:28, 5:37, 5:39, 5:38
Ended up being fairly happy with the push. Logan dropped me about 4 miles to go. By mile 7 my hips and back were starting to lock-up pretty good - but I got through it.
Happy this last week 1/2 is over. My goal is just to dial in the next 3 weeks with some solid miles & tempo's before the marathon.
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