Tuesday & Thursday

Tuesday 7.0 miles/1:00:48/8:41 average pace

I actually enjoyed the speed work in this run! The quarter-mile intervals were short enough that I never got too tired, and never got that "I'm-gonna-puke" feeling that often accompanies intervals. It felt great to run the repeats hard, knowing they'd be over in a snap. I was a little conservative at first, knowing I had 10 repeats to do. I did 1:1 speed and recovery intervals (.25 mile each). I warmed up with a mile at 9:08 pace, then ran the intervals in the following times (I'm omitting my recovery times):

1- 1:49
2- ? didn't hit the lap between speed and recovery intervals
3- 1:50
4- 1:47
5- 1:51 (slowest one: 7:24 pace)
6- 1:43
7- 1:48
8- 1:44
9- 1:46
10- 1:42 (fastest one: 6:48 pace)

Nice and consistent! I got a side cramp on that last one, but otherwise felt great. I did one mile cool down in 8:51 to finish up.

I took Wednesday off since I was in OC for work. Back at it this morning:

Thursday 10.0 miles/1:33:44/9:23 average pace

I was tired and thirsty, but enjoyed this morning's run anyway. It was so pretty - sun shining, blue sky, flowers blossoming, birds singing, it was impossible to not like. I ran a little slow due to being generally tired, really thirsty (should have brought my fuel belt), and I've got a sore throat thing again I think. But I made it through, chugged a ton of water, and feel fine now. These longer mid-week runs are great endurance and confidence builders. I'm glad I have 5 1/2 weeks before Boston, since I am finally feeling like my self again when running. The marathon might not be so bad after all. :)