2 kind of awesome things happened this morning. First of all I miraculously landed on a treadmill that went for longer than 60 min and secondly I felt oddly kind of great. I was reading on Jackie's blog yesterday about "Aerobic Threshold" runs and realized this is a pace I rarely train at. I am really good at running fast or slow but I rarely train at a steady state. This is something I really need to improve if I want to PR in the marathon in 2014. I knew I wanted to get a longer effort in today since I have school tomorrow morning so I just kind of went with it. 2 mile warmup and then 8 mile progression run. 6:58, 6:53, 6:48, 6:43, 6:39, 6:35, 6:30, 6:22. I was so patient with this workout and I felt so good! First 4 miles at 1.5% incline and last 4 at 1%. 1.5 mile cooldown for 11.5 total in 82 minutes.
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