Happy Birthday to son #2 Tyler - 18 yrs old!
Met up with the SF runners at the usual meeting spot. Kim is on docs orders to take it easy today so she "had" to sleep in (poor girl!). Glad the SF crew wised up and moved the start time from summer to winter hours at 6am instead of 5am. Just ran nice and easy for the most part but threw in a couple of flat marathon-ish paced miles (around 7 min/mi) near the end. I was glad that the MP miles felt better than on Tuesday but it still seems like running 7s feels about like what running 6:30 used to feel like earlier in the year. Oh well we just do our best. I can tell the taper is doing it's thing as the lingering aches/pains are lessening but not all the way gone. Hopefully with another week of heavy duty taper and the race day magic will be there in full force come Oct 4!
It was good to see Pat L out this morning and hear that he is going to be able to run SGM. He got injured a month or so ago while water skiing and was going to bag the marathon, but it sounds like with some good rest and working with the sports doc that he's going to be able to give the race a shot, albeit a little slower than usual for him. Hope things go well for him. It was nice getting some last minute advice from a guy who has run numerous marathons in the 2:50-3:00 range and who seems to get better with age. His marathon PRs have been run in his 50's.
Ave pace: 8:30. Ave/Max HR: 146/183
MP miles were 6:57 (HR 162) and 7:02 (HR 179) | 