This morning I had an interesting decision to make - when to run. I’d emailed with Gilbert yesterday and asked his advice, since there was a 6:00 group doing 10-15 miles and a 7:00 group doing 7-10. He said that I didn’t need to do anything over ten miles since I was working on speed and strength right now. Alright. But we have stretching at 8:30, which means that starting a ten mile run at 7:00 is pushing things a bit. And starting one at 6:00 would give me a ton of dead time.

Hmm.

In the end I ran with the 7:00 group. My goal was to do about a 9:00 pace, and I think we did that for all of seven seconds before picking it up. We kept accelerating for the first five miles until we were clocking along at about a 7:45 pace, then paused for a quick water break and took off again. I met up with Brian, someone who only started running recently, and ran the last two in a bit slower with him at around a 9:00. Even so, I clocked a 57:15 total time for the lap, or an 8:14 average pace. Phew!

After all that I just did a bit over a mile at a “slow” 9:00 pace for a cooldown, and joined back up with about 30 gazelles for stretching and breakfast tacos after that. What a wonderful way to start the morning. Next week we have a progressive run on Monday, Wilke on Tuesday, and a tempo run on Thursday, so that should be a lot of fun.

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