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Day: Wednesday

Workout: 3.3 miles

Time: 26:24

So, I’m just including this workout for the sake of continuity, but I honestly don’t remember anything about the run…so, that’s all I have to say about that.

Day: Saturday

Workout: 6 miles

Time: 50:29 (8:21, 8:29, 9:20, 8:07, 8:05, 8:04)

So Saturday’s run was my last “long” run before the race this coming Saturday.  To be honest it was another day that I had to force myself out the door.  The weather was kinda bleh…very humid, not very cool, just not great running weather.  But, I need to get the run done so I got out there and did it.  The first 2.5 miles my lower right leg was very tight.  As you can see from my first 3 splits, it was affecting my run.  At around 2.5 I stopped to try to stretch it out some, and then I walked for about 30-60 seconds to try to loosen it up.  I guess it worked.  I then went on to have negative splits for the rest of the run.  The rest of the run was not easy by any means…I still felt tight and overall uncomfortable, but was still able to get my time in a good place.

Being able to recover from a rough start like that and come back with negative splits for the final 3 miles of a run gave me some confidence going into the race this coming weekend.  I’m looking forward to it.  I have kinda refocused my main goal to simply running a PR, which would require me running an 8:20 pace for the entire time.  I’m pretty sure I can do that.  The course has some hills, so as long as I stay around 8:30-8:40 on the uphills, I can more than make that up on the downhills where my pace has been averaging around 7:10-7:20.  So we’ll see it how goes.  I mean, I’d definitely welcome doing even better, but I will be very happy with a PR.

On a final note, the video I promised for Wednesday got a little delayed, but it’s below.  Be ready…it’s some pretty big news