Don't use the "t" word in front of Ed....

EJ, take your time recovering, you deserve it after all those 3-4 hr runs you did. Garmin had me at 4:58 during the first mile. Yeah, that was stupid. By the time I slowed down and adjusted my pace, the damage was done, and me legs were like lead by the third mile. Another lesson on why even paced running is the way to go.

Ha Ha... Yeah right, 4:58 for a mile. I meant I just ran that pace for some amount of time, probably like 10 yards. That's still too much for me.

Just by looking at your Log, Tom. You did too many miles on race week. Two weeks before you had 24 miles. Then you tapered to 18. You did 27.7 miles race week. You did 9+ miles of running then you did the week before and you're supposed to less not more than the week before if you want to do well in a race. You gotta taper about 20-50% of your miles 1-3 weeks before race. 5 of those miles were the same day after your 5k so lets forget about those miles and just call it 22.7 miles. If you cut out your interval that week of 3.7, that would be 19 miles. After cutting out your interval run for that week, you would have still had to decrease by at least 3 miles on your easy run. PS, Ed I feel you're pain. My feet are trashed from running my first marathon and my fastest three half marathon's all between October 5th and November 2nd. I tried running a few days ago but my achilles tendon wasnt up for the task.