Notes
Sunny then clouds, hot and humid. Thunderstorms were coming so trying to get out and back before they hit. Too hot at lunch to run, so I decided to wait and run at home. Not much cooler when I got home, got out the door pretty quick though. Plan was to do a 5 mile out and back on Turkey lane. Went pretty quick down the hill and kept a fairly fast pace going up South road, I actually felt pretty good. Once onto Turkey, I kept the pace pretty hard up the long incline and still felt good. Kept going past Pike road and down over the hill. Turned around just before the last hill down to the bottom. Starting to feel the pace now though and I was getting hot. I still tried to keep the pace uncomfortable. By the time I got to the top where the road flattens out I was starting to fade. Ran the downhill fairly hard but it felt like I wasn't going as hard as I have on other runs. Once I got back out to South road I really had the urge to quit. Slowed down some to try and recover. The last big hill, I just focused on countng my steps all the way up and kept a steady pace. Ran the downhill fairly hard although I was heel striking quite a bit. I tried switching to faster mid-strike steps. Went pretty hard up Orchard hill and was completely gassed by time I got to O'Malley's. Finished hard though and was done when I got to our mailbox. Walked up to the end of the street and back to cool down. Started raining hard 20 minutes later. Good training run, my splits were a lot faster than I thought so that explains why I was really feeling it.