20 miles at the track 2:39:51 7:59:55 pace. Not often I do a 20 miles where the average pace is sub 8, so I didn't round this up.
I ran the last 8 miles pretty hard. My goal was to run the first 5 around 8:45ish, next five would be a progresstion to 8:00 and then I would continue a progression over the next 10 reducing each mile by 5 seconds so my las mile would be 7:10.
Didn't happen, once I hit about 7:35 I couldn't go faster. I had to work very hard to maintain that pace to the end. The last 5 of this run was very much like a race, I had to focus, relax, push and "mantra" my way over those last miles. One heck of a workout for sure.
8.45 8.23 8.24 8.25 8.29 8.08 8.10 8.05 8.01 8.05 8.00 7.52 7.47 7.35 7.38 7.42 7.37 7.36 7.35 7.33
4th 20 miler in this training cycle.
Beautiful day today, the news said 60° today, it was probably 50° when I ran between 9-11:30am. Rain prior to my run.
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