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COMMENTS: Interval day so I got up early (4:30) and "snuck" out of the house so as to not wake Tory (who , if woken, would whine while I'm gone and wake everybody up). It worked! Tory slept and I did a 2 mile warm up at 8:00 pace then 4 x 800m with 2 min rests. Struggled a bit on these trying to balance cadence and stride length. First one blasted with heavy breathing and fast cadence and was way VO2 maxed at the end (3:17, 6:34 pace). The next was still not striding right and ended 3:42, 7:24 pace. Then got stride right with higher knee lifts which felt much better and gave 3:29, 6:58 pace. Final was 3:41 (7:22 pace with gusty winds and driving rain in my face). Then 0.6 miles at 8:06 pace home to get Tory followed by 2.6 miles easy 8:42 pace with Tory. All in all 7.6 miles. I need to somehow strengthen my legs to keep the higher leg lifts without tiring so much.