First half of the run was great today. Everything felt good and the legs finally felt like they had a little spring in them. After we stopped in at mile six for some gatorade we decided to pick up the pace for the second half of the run. For whatever reason I had a really hard time getting the pace to stay in the 8:15 range and so ended up running most of the last half of the run at about 8:25-8:30/mile pace. The second half of the run was very frustrating because I felt like I was working pretty hard and wasn't seeing the benefit (i.e. 8:15/mile) on the garmin. 8:15 has seemed like a tough pace for me because I hate working that hard and not seeing sub 8:00/mile on the garmin. I think I can blame most of how I have felt this week on my relatively slow recovery from Painter's. I don't think I should still be feeling the effects of the race a week later but maybe my recovery just hasn't caught up. Tomorrows day off should help and hopefully I will be back to normal on Monday. The knee wasn't a factor at all today during the run and I think full recovery is only a week or two away.
Time: 8:37/mile | 