WMYC @ Noon on treadmill. WU 1.5 miles, CD 0.5 mile. Ran 3.1 miles @7:03” pace (PR). Ran mostly at controlled hard/threshold effort. First mile went by fast at medium-hard effort. Somehow it was getting tougher mentally toward the end of 2nd and 3rd miles. Legs and heart finished the work out in pretty decent shape, better than the last time when I ran 3.1 miles at 7:08” pace. Breathing was consistent throughout the work out at controlled hard effort but the mind so often needs to be motivated! I was thinking of how tough a runner Paul was during his many successful races. My mantra was “I want to run like Paul”. I could have run these 3.1 miles today at 7:00” pace by speeding up on the last 400m but decided not to. Lately my body has been delivering every single time that I've asked it to do and I don’t think it’s fair to raise the bar after the goal had been set. I guess now I can say I am fully recover from last Thursday 5 miles race (=: | 