Got to bed a bit late last night and had trouble sleeping for some reason, so decided to sleep in just a bit (is 6am wake up sleeping in?), go into work early to deal with some India issues, then run with Kim at work around 9:30 for the planned 11 miler including 8 miles of tempo for Kim around 1/2 marathon to marathon pace. Weather wasn't too bad for a tempo run at that time, a bit cloudy but also a bit muggy. Toward the end of the run it started getting uncomfortable. Warmed up for 2 miles then paced Kim on the 8 mile tempo running West toward Utah Lake and back. She did great especially considering having raced on Saturday and with the temps a little warmer than usual. We averaged 8:25 pace over the 8 miles then did 1 more cooldown mile. My hamstring felt the best it's felt for a while and I was pleased that my left foot wasn't doing its annoying thing where it slaps the road and I can tell my form is messed up. I have a strange little pain behind my big toe on the bottom of my left foot, right on the ball of the foot. It just showed up one morning a few days ago. Feels sort of like a bruise. Doesn't really bother me when running but sometimes gets annoying when walking barefoot. Wonder if its from all the slap-slap running. Hope it doesn't get worse and cause me to start running goofy (any goofier than usual anyway :)). Tomorrow about this same time of day. I think I'll experiment with trying to run some miles in the 6-7 min pace range and gauge how the hammie is doing. I think from here on out I'll try and do any tempo/faster runs later in the morning and only run easy in the early AM. I just seem to do so much better after being awake a couple of hours or more, much looser and much less prone to injury I think.
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