15.4 miles at 6:30am. Weather= Cloudy, muggy and windy. 73F, 77% humidity, 65 dew point, 15mph wind gusting to 25mph, cloudy. Average pace=7:54/m. mile 1- 8:31 mile 2- 7:54 mile 3- 7:59 mile 4- 7:55 mile 5- 8:04 mile 6- 7:55 mile 7- 7:49 mile 8- 7:57 mile 9- 7:48 mile 10- 7:31 mile 11- 7:46 mile 12- 7:21 mile 13- 7:45 mile 14- 8:04 mile 15- 8:13 mile 15.4- 7:38 All the coaches at my running store have been telling me to slow down on the long runs. They said I'm not going to get faster running my long runs too fast. So I tried to slow it down today. Actually, it wasn't that hard to slow it down because the weather was pretty yucky today. I ran with a girl named Wendy today. We talked non-stop pretty much until mile 9. At that point I told her I had to put in my ipod and focus. I was going to try to have negative splits. Miles 14 and 15 were directly against the wind. It was rather tough moving. I was kicking my calfs as I was running. The wind was making it tough to have good form. I decided to stop trying to go faster and just try to not injure myself with the horrible form. At one point a gust of wind almost blew me off the sidewalk. So I didn't really overdue it today. Now I feel great! I don't even feel like I ran at all today. There are a bunch of us (about 7-8 people) aiming for 3:20-3:30 marathons in Dec/Jan. We decided that we wanted to start a tempo group on Tuesdays. It should be alot of fun! Texas-OU game is on now. Hook 'em Horns!!!! ----------------- Afternoon update: I had to log back on and say that my legs now feel like I ran 15 miles... which is to say they are rather beat up! Also, this Longhorn game is hard to watch... OU is kicking our butts! ugh! | 