Progression run - 10 miles, last 8 miles hard. Average pace: 9:11.
Weather: 40°F, 26% humidity, wind 20 mph SW, clear skies with a waning crescent moon. I guess it was fairly windy, but I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to the wind.
Yesterday I was questioning my ability to complete this run and was thinking about modifying it to make it easier. But then I remembered that I had to be back from my run in time to drive my oldest son and a string bass to school before 7:00. I usually get home from my runs around 7:30 or even 8:00. My first approach to this issue was to try to be like Snoqualmie and get up absurdly early. I got up earlier than usual, but not quite early enough. I was out the door by 5:15, but needed to have been out by 5:00. So the only recourse left to me then was to either cut the run short or run fast. I tried to run fast. I was home from the run by 6:50 and when I got here the boy wasn't even ready to go. Here are my splits: 10:30, 10:11, 9:40, 9:11, 9:38 (now it changes from generally uphill to generally downhill), 8:48, 8:20, 8:26, 8:39, 8:28.
I wish I could just hang out at home and take it easy and take a nap after I've done hard workouts like this, but alas, I have to go to work and sit at a desk all day. I'll probably have dead legs the next couple of days because I really pushed it today. | 