WHEW !!! This was a fast one...and it won't easy. (bad grammar) Got home from work and needed to hurry so I could get home and light the grill to cook dinner. 1st mile was 7:35. I did not know it was going to be that fast. I immediately wondered if I could hang with the 7:30 guy for 8 miles. This would be a tough thing for me to do so I decided to try it 1 mile at a time, without killing myself. Mile 2 - 7:35. Still feeling good. Mile 3 was 7:33 and I began to wonder if I could hold the pace for 5 more miles. 4th was in 7:24 and I was only 9 seconds behind. So I wanted to make that up on the 5th and then just hang on the last 3. Mile 5 was 7:20. The final 3 were - 7:18, 7:14, & 6:56. Finished 8 in 59:00 (7:22 avg.) I normally would not run this hard on a training run. My quads are sore now. I am going to treat this like a race since I run so few of them. But hopefully this workout will help when it is time to race for real. I still managed to meet my weekly running goal of 36 miles. But I had to do it in 4 days instead of 6. Also I did not get the 45 minutes of daily cross training I wanted. Turns out day shift limits my time where I cannot get to the pool. But I still love day shift more than the others by far! Next week, starting Monday, I am going to run the 2 miles to the pool. Swim my 1000 yards, then run 4 to 5 more miles on the way home. Today was another good run ! Run - 8.46 - 7:35, 7:35, 7:33, 7:24, 7:20, 7:18, 7:14, 6:56, 4:00 - 1:02:59 - 7:26 avg.
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