5:20 am. Talked to Paul for a little bit about his injury and how nice it is to run injury free, I thought about it more on my run this morning and realized I had pretty much assumed all last year that running had to hurt, because it did. It really is amazing to run without hurting all the time. I do have the normal soreness after a good hard run but last year I pretty much was in a state of barely being able to walk most of the day between Plantar fasciitis and problems with my tibialis muscle. Going into my schedule starting up in a couple of weeks I'm going to take on a new approach. Run as hard as I can without hurting myself but at any time along the way I start to feel "injured" I'm going to scale back and recover before moving forward again. Anyway, good run this morning, I've only ran 10 miles in 1 hour or less twice, and both were during downhill 1/2 marathons. I decided it would be a good Monday morning challenge to try and do a 10 miler in 1 hour. Splits went like this. 1 - 6:24 (Took the treadmill a few seconds to get to speed) 2 - 6:15 3 - 6:11 4 - 6:07 5 - 6:03 6 - 5:58 7 - 5:56 8 - 5:52 9 - 5:49 10 - 5:26 (Realized I was behind target and really had to push this last mile) 10 Mile total 1:00:01. (Missed it by 1 second, I know if I keep up my training someday I will be able to make up that extra 1/10 second per mile :) ) | 