Medium-length run. 5:03 am, 29-32°F. 33% humidity, wind 10 S, little sliver of a waning crescent moon. My plan recently has been 10 miles on on Tuesday, 8 miles on Wednesday, and 10 miles on Thursday. I've been struggling to stick 4 tempo miles within that Wednesday run after the 10 miles on Tuesday. So I decided to change things up but I wanted to keep the overall mileage the same, so I shifted two miles from Wednesday to Tuesday so that I have 12 on Tuesday, 6 on Wednesday, and 10 on Thursday, and then I'll put the tempo miles in the Thursday run instead of on Wednesday. That way I can have a nice easy day before the tempo run. And I have the option to make the tempo run longer if I want to. To follow up on some issues from yesterday, my son agreed to bring the bass home on the train, so that's what we did. But we didn't get home until late (we probably would have been just as late if I had driven) and I had some stuff to do when I got home because I hadn't really been home all day, so it was hard to get up to run this morning after only 5 hours of sleep, but I did it anyway. Speaking of my busy day yesterday, have I told you want a wonderful person Michelle is? She knew I had a busy day, but so did she, and she knew I didn't have much time or a plan to feed my family, and so she made a pan of enchiladas for my family. Isn't she great?! In other news, my 2nd son chose walking to seminary two days/week over carpooling, so the carpool is officially ended. The carpool was convenient for me, but this arrangement isn't much worse for me, since I'll still drive only 3 days/week (with the carpool, I was driving 2 days/week). So he walked to seminary this morning so that I could do a long run. I ran two different 6-mile loops this morning, the 2nd one being my standard 6-mile loop, so I've got some slower miles in the middle of the run when I hit the 3-mile uphill portion of the 2nd loop, in addition to the slow uphill 3 miles at the beginning of the first loop. OK. It was all pretty slow. It took me a long time to finish this run.
AP: 9:38. Splits: 9:56, 9:59, 9:57, 9:29, 9:12, 9:23, 9:39, 9;42, 9;45, 9:31, 9:42, 9:22, 0.28 @ 9:31.
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