AM - 12 miles. The original plan for today was a 10-15K progression run. That got changed when winter storm Galdolf came in stronger than expected... all the roads are still covered in snow. Yesterday Rob approached me w/ the idea of running a 2 mile trial at the olympic oval with Kramer Morton, who finished 16th at the Foot Locker National XC Championships last month. I was all-in for that. We had a good crew meet at the oval - Andrea, Matt, Scott, Mike, Toni, Kevin, Collin, and Rob w/ his high school kids. Abby Murphy even joined us! The oval was very crowded and we realized two things right away: 1) Don't go there at 8am (gotta go at 6am on the weekends if you are doing a faster workout) and 2) The 2-mile time trial wasn't happening due to the congestion. There was some skating event going on and it was a bottleneck on either end of the track. So we had to improvise. Coach Rob suggested we change the plan to 4 x Mile, so that's what we did. They were actually 1600s, but w/ all the weaving around, I guarantee every one was well over a mile long. I was going from lane 1 to 4 and back several times on every rep. Kramer and I ran 4:51, 4:50, 4:50, 4:50. I would set the pace and Kramer would hang behind me until 200m to go, when he would even up and it was obvious that he could blow me away with his kick whenever he wanted to. But he was nice and didn't do that. On the last rep, Rob told us to come through 1200m slower and then accelerate on the last 400m. We came through in ~3:46 and I ran 64 for the last lap, with Kramer just ahead of me on that one. On a day like today, any quality efforts you can put in is a bonus. I wish we had been able to run the duece, because my legs felt ready to really rip it. I feel ready for next weekend, that's for sure. It was fun to run w/ Kramer... I hope I get to do workouts with him more this spring, because he has some incredible speed and can really make me work over shorter distances. The best part of the workout was that Scott was right behind us on every rep. He's back! I also got in trouble for cutting off the zamboni. Whatever! Andrea took a few pictures... 
PM - 8 miles.
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