I actually got 8 1/2 hours of sleep last night and that felt so good. But I did wake up tired and not really wanting to run. Hamstring felt tight this morning and a little sore so I spend sometime stretching. I finally got out the door by 7am. I was going to work late today because I had to take my daughter to her soccer clinic this morning. They have two sessions today one at 9am to 11am and 6pm to 8pm, and I have to take her and pick her up all 4 times. Then somewhere today I have to go mow my grandpa's lawn so I won't be running twice today.
The temperature was 55 degrees this morning and I ran up Pocatello creek and back down. I decided to do a tempo back down. It's really not a steep downhill except for the first mile than it turns flat.  6:18 (warming up, and it's funny this is the steepest part where I should have ran the fast split out of the tempo run itself) 5:50 (Felt good a gradual downhill with flat portions in-between. I was really trying to practice on my turn over rate) 5:34 (More flat than anything... It felt good again and I was trying to get warm. Really try to get my legs to turn over quickly and shorten the stride). 5:24 (Completely flat. My turn over rate was really good in this mile, and not feeling tired). 5:58 (This was a cool down mile. Amazing how you can run a cool down mile at this pace and it doesn't feel fast at all). (Asics Trainers 13 - 223 miles)
Evening:
I was able to squeeze in an other run right before dropping my daughter off for the Soccer Clinic and before dinner. I ran 4.23 miles at an overall 7:17 pace in 30.48 minutes. It felt like a 9 minute pace because it was hot and I was still tired I think from the late night work on Tuesday. | 