I started off slower today, which ended up being an okay thing. My first 5 miles averaged 9:51 pace. I was feeling a little slow starting out and then I decided that I would keep myself in check for the first 5 and then try to push the pace for the second 5. I pushed myself for the next 4 and then kinda lost the edge. At the end of 4 I decided to cool down the last 2 miles instead of the last mile. Those miles averaged 9 minutes per. Then the last two averaged 9:30, as a cool down. If things had gone as planned this week, I would have run 10 more miles during the week. I took Monday off, as I usually do, forgetting that we had an appointment on Wednesday. Then on Friday 2 weeks of sleeping with a pair of feet kicking me from 2-5:30 caught up with me. I crashed on the couch after getting home from school and couldn't motivate myself to get up. But it's probably just as well. It would have increased my weekly mileage by a significant amount, which always makes me nervous. This week, though, I hope to (and know I most likely will) run 6 days this week. We're on spring break (yay!) so I have a lot more time to get those miles in. I don't think that it's a good idea to increase my mileage by 25%, although I'd like to run 40 miles this week. So I might do a couple of runs that are 3 miles instead of the 5 I'd normally do.
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