This morning I got a late start, but I've been putting so many extra hours at work lately that coming in late wouldn't be an issue. The temperature was 26 degrees with no wind so that was real nice. I ran 10.3 miles at an overall 6:48 pace in 1:10 felt easy, but I really wanted to keep my pace in the 7:30 range to really stay more aerobic. This is something I need to work on especially if I'm raising my mileage up this week. I did do some fartlek work the last two miles so naturally the splits were faster (6:14, 6:18) they didn't feel too bad. I noticed something about my running this week my achilles seems a lot stronger, because I can now feel a better push and faster turn over rate in my right leg. This is something I didn't have in the Del Sol Relay, where I couldn't really push that great off my right leg, and feel strong or fast, but more fatigue. I wish I could go back and run my legs now that the achilles is feeling so much better and stronger. How frustrating, but what's done is done and you can't look at the past. Evening: Ran after working tonight I started at 5:25pm and had to be done be 5:50pm so I could go pick my daughter up from soccer practice. I couldn't get off work any earlier because of too many projects going on. I did a tempo run to get done faster 4.1 miles at a 6:16 pace in 25:51. I really didn't try to push the pace too much. I originally wanted to just do a slow run but that wasn't in the cards. Splits (6:13, 6:05, 6:01, and cooling down 6:31) and I was able to run in shorts for once! Good quality miles tonight! I don't really feel fast though, hopefully that will come. Tomorrow I'm going to do a slow aerobic run in the morning.
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