AM) I got up this morning with a very scary feeling that I was slow. I've had some good runs recently with good times at varying distances, but all training runs. I've done nothing out of the ordinary at shorter speedwork type runs. So, I decided to do my 2 mile route from home. A route I've done hundreds of times and I have much data to compare times to. And because I generally have a good knack for running what I say I'm going to, I wrote down my goal times (I really didn't believe them, they were more of a hope). My uphill mile out I wrote down 6.56 (really didn't feel this one at all) and ran 7.27. It was windy and I didn't push, tho, b/c the mile back was the focus. I wrote 5.32 for the goal and I approached the 1/2 at 2.40-2.45 and although, I almost always, if not always, run the last half faster than the first, I went about 10 steps past the 1/2 and stopped running. I was hurting and mentally didn't think I could keep the pace. Which if I had, I would have run well into the 5 mins. I walked about 0.2 mile and then ran a 1.12 quarter. I am mentally a wuss right now. I definitely need to do more speedwork as I think these muscles are weak and begin to tire quickly. I hope that is what it is. I noticed a workout in my log from 2009 that was a 13.9 mile run and the time was 5 mins slower than my 15 mile run from 2 weeks ago. That has to account for something, doesn't it?
PM) 20 mile bike on cycops. 20.8 mph.
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