5:00 am, Ran to work today, we went to the Bee's game last night so I had my wife follow me to the gym and I dropped my car off there so I could run in today. The Bee's game was fun but the late night plus all the ice cream and candy I ate was a very bad thing the night before a long run. I really wanted to try and maintain a 6:45/mile pace, with the tail wind and downhill start I thought it would be easier, but between my ice cream belly, dodging cars, and stopping at stop lights I just couldn't keep a steady pace going. Plus at mile 3 I twisted my ankle trying to get off the shoulder of the road as a big truck wizzed by me which slowed down what should have been my fastest section. Anyway, no complaints I got it done, I'm over 1/2 way through my race schedule from hell and I think with the exception of the week I decided to throw in an improptu marathon, this is my longest mileage week of the schedule. 15 Miles in 1:44:00 6:55/mile avg. What a crazy day, 21 miles in the middle of the week? Anyway, 12:00pm went to the gym and hit the treadmill for a 6 mile recovery run, started out a little bit stiff but worked it out. Ryan showed up about 10 minutes into it so it was nice to have someone to talk to. Decided to do a little something crazy at the end which I think I'm going to incorporate into all my treadmill recovery runs from now on as just kind of a personal challenge. After my 6 miles I put the treadmill on 15 miles/hr just to see how long I could go. It takes about .05 miles just to ramp up to full speed so I didn't run the whole thing at 4:00/mile pace but I made it 0.2 miles. I'll try for .25 next time. 6.2 in 46:50. 7:33/mile avg.
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