Somewhere into my 16 mile run on Saturday I found my legs again, I think running with Ryan really helped. Just running next to people with a really smooth stride helps a lot.
First resemblance of speed work in quite some time, when I started this morning I didn't think it would even happen, now my left hip is acting up. It sucks getting old or whatever I'm getting. Ran a 6 mile warm up in 44:45 started feeling better around mile 3. Then I did 3 X 1 mile repeats, no fancy pyramids, or diamonds or rombusus, just plain old repeats with 1/2 mile rest. I wasn't quite sure I could even run a 6 minute mile but decided to give it a try, ran the first one fairly handily and considered trying the next 2 faster but then I decided there is really no point in me running faster than 6 min/mile for my current race goal. So I ran all 3 at 6 min pace (actually the last one in 5:55 just to get done 5 seconds sooner), Partially annoyed with how hard it was, partially thrilled I could even run that pace at all after how I've felt lately.
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