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Felt great today...

My first .3 miles is always slow as I'm loosening up for the workout.  I finished the first mile at 9:00, but I estimate that I was going at about 8:30 pace.

I then did 2 minutes easy and 1 minute hard for 21 minutes.  I could feel myself losing steam, but I just wanted to make it so that I had a 1/2 mile cooldown to do.  I did make it.

My cooldown was about 5 minutes.  Altogether it took me 35 min.  8:45 pace-ish. 

Felt a little slow today while running.  Did the good old run to the farm, except I did it the back way since I just wanted a shorter run.  I felt good going out, but once I hit the wind out on Maplewood, then I was toast. 

I hate those runs where for the majority of the time, you're just thinking about how much longer you have before you're done.  This was one of those days.  Even listening to music didn't help

Today's run felt great.  My only problem is that I feel I can run an 8 minute mile in my sleep.  I think I'm afraid to go faster because I'm an overanalyzer.  I'm so concerned about staying on pace that I panic when I'm too fast or two slow.

Anyway, I ran 1.25 to the track (forgot to start my watch though), ran two mile repeats, one at 8 even (all splits within a second of 2 min) the other at 8:07 (my mind drifted during the second lap--that one was 2:07.  The other 3 were pretty much even).

Then I decided that I just needed to go a little faster.  I did an 800 at 3:45 (1:51, 1:54) and a 400 at 1:47.  I'm think I'm being too cautious.

Then on my cool down I had this weird calf twinge--didn't hurt, but wasn't exactly pleasant.  My calves have been tight the last 2-3 weeks.  Gotta stretch them better.

Ran an easy two--didn't feel like running at first, but once I decided I was going to take it easy, I finished in no time.

First mile: little under 10, second 9.