Today was nice - we didn’t have to meet up at RunTex until 6AM! You know, I never thought I’d consider that to be a good thing, but it is disproportionately nicer than meeting up at 5:45 for some reason. The regular Tuesday pack was there, and it was a good opportunity to mingle a little, but then they headed off for AHS and we went the other direction for our seven mile recovery run.

I ran with Sean for most of the way, but since there were only six of us we pretty much stayed together. At first we did a very comfortable 9:20 pace, but that only lasted a couple of miles. The next three saw us gently pick it up until we were doing about an 8:40 by the time we got to the MoPac overpass. This was a good excuse to stop and grab some water before finishing up, and the break was welcome even though we didn’t slow back down.

For some reason - probably because I needed this rest day - this felt almost as hard as yesterday’s tempo run. My legs were stiff, I was sweating like some very sweaty thing, and my breathing was definately hard. Its not that I couldn’t have run faster, but I certainly didn’t want to.

We ended up doing the loop in a little under 1:03 for a little over a 9 minute overall pace, including the water stop. Running pace was a bit under 9. That’s a little warm for a true recovery run, but not bad. After we cooled down a bit we ran 4 100M strides, then headed back to stretch and get to work. As always, my first stride felt very stiff and awkward but I was having a nice fun fast time by the last one.

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