Well, I am planning on getting up early to do my long run on the Mt. Vernon Trail tomorrow, so I was planning to get out for a recovery workout this afternoon. Actually, I was originally supposed to meet up with Mike P to do a track workout this morning at 11, but Cole had a rough night sleeping, keeping Betsy and I up until around 1AM. Therefore, it was a tiring day at work and with the long run (18-20 miles) looming tomorrow I opted out of the track work for a recovery run. However, when I got home from work and hit the road, my body decided to tell me that I should have done track as I was just lightly running, feeling really good yet finished the first mile in 7:49. I still didn't want to push too much with the long run tomorrow, so I just kept the nice steady pace, but found that I finished the next two miles in 7:33 each. Being that I knew I was close to setting a PR, I pushed that last mile to see if I couldn't set a new personal record for that course, knocking out a 7:21 mile before finally finishing the last 0.1 at a 5:50 min/mile pace! Felt fantastic and set a PR by 3 secs finishing in 30:26. We will see how this works in with my run tomorrow, but for now it feels great!
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