On the morning of September 8, Eggers sent me a BBM announcing that he was ready for the first workout of the training season. I hadn't planned on doing a workout but I felt I was ready. The plan was to do a 7-mile tempo run at McAlpine in mile splits of 7:30, 7:30, 7:15, 7:15, 7:00, and sub-7. The part of McAlpine's 5K course that included the hill would be mile #6. Awesome...
This was tough. We ran right at 5:45 p.m. on another 90-degree day, and we were already sucking wind by the third mile. But we were running slightly ahead of our desired pace. I came through the final three miles in 6:58, 6:53 (the hill mile), and 6:40 and felt pretty happy about the way it worked out. You can read Dan's recap of this workout here.
The following Saturday I ran a 12-mile long run at McMullen Greenway with David Brinkley and Mike Oelz at slightly better than 8-minutes-per-mile pace. I turned my ankle at one point during this run. More on that later. I finished the week at just under 40 miles, with two days (Thursday and Sunday) off.
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