Week Minus 4 - Tempo (8 miles)

Garmin Link
8.22 miles
1:04:50
Target:
- 1 mile easy (actual: 8:14);
- 7 miles @8:00 (actual: @7:50)

Today I was feeling the effects of every-other-day training for the last 5 workouts. Keeping below an 8:00 pace was more of an effort today for 8 miles than it was Sunday for 17. Legs were hurting for the first mile or two. I will have 2 days off before the final 20-miler, so hope I can rest/heal enough before then so that the long run is not too punishing at an 8 minute pace. Would like to have another confidence-building long run (like last weekend) before the marathon.

Interesting article in NY Times yesterday - again referencing Christopher McDougall's Born to Run - but this time discussing human beings' evolutionary suitability for distance running: Human Body Built for Distance.