AM - 14 miles. 2 mile warmup, 11 mile tempo in 60:16 (5:29/mi average), 1 mile cooldown. Pretty much the same thing as last week - I was targeting 60-61 minutes, so right on the money. Right about the 9 mile mark, I came around the corner and Andrea was there on her bike... a nice surprise! So I had some company (and was able to take some sips of Gatorade) for the last couple miles. Splits - 5:39, 5:39, 5:30, 5:29, 5:33, 5:22, 5:23, 5:26, 5:24, 5:25, 5:26. Another nice controlled effort. Although maybe a little too relaxed for the first 2 miles... I need to remember that this isn't the women's 1500m Olympic final... you can't just totally jog :-) An hour is about the perfect length for a tempo run, mentally. PM - 10 miles. Really easy, just a pure mental health run. Had a stressful end of the day and lots of loops on the grass around the horsepark did the trick of resetting my head.
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