After a not-so-great week last week (which would have been an okay week if I hadn't skipped my run yesterday in favor of unpleasant things like laundry, cleaning and work and pleasant things like lunch with the family and a trivia night with chuck and some pals), I had a great run. 2 mile wu, then 6 miles at HMP (or what I realistically think will be HMP) and then 4 miles cd. The best thing about it was that I decided to push myself on the fly, when my pace dropped to about 8:30 pace for the 3rd mile. The fast portion splits were 8:34, 8:21, 8:14, 8:14, 8;17, 7:57. It was 60 degrees, but windy. There was a lot of head wind during some of these fast miles. It started raining heavily during mile 10, and I thought briefly of being satisfied with 11 miles, but I added a few blocks onto my loop to get to 12. So ti was good all around. | 