What a GREAT run today - good friends, one of my favorite courses, fast time (our best when you compare like runs on other weeks) and breakfast at Mimi's at the end.
Because of not getting in SGM, our training has been cut short 2 weeks - hopefully we'll be okay for TOU. We've upped our mileage during the week over the last month and gotten in all of the long runs except the 20-22. So it's going to be a mental battle.
Stats for this run:
8.57 in 1:37:34 (we hit 8 miles at 1:29 and that is 10 minutes faster than our best time on an 8 mile run). Our avg pace was 11:23 which is a minute faster than our average on other 8 mile runs. That is very exciting to me.
splits:
1 - 13:45, 2 - 11:19, 3 - 10:33, 4 - 11:04, 5 - 10:38, 6 - 11:23, 7 - 10:56, 8 - 9:50
these are pretty fast splits for us. The encouraging thing for me is that I felt good at this pace for this distance. I do wish I could do that the whole marathon but that is just not going to happen. Maybe in the next few years.
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