Notes
Long run, part of it with Willie. Felt like real crap out there for the first 30 minutes. The long descent then had me feeling pretty good as we went through the five mile mark in about 36:20 and soon turned onto Rt. 103 for a few minutes before turning around in 43:50. I knew Willie was hurting as he was yo-yoing behind me. He stopped as we got back to the dirt road for the big climb on the way back, I kept going. Got the top in just over the hour mark, so I ran an hour without stopping. I rarely ever do that. I waited about 2:30 for him but then he said to just go because he was "cooked." Now I wasn't looking to hammer the way back, but I did want an even split, so I had to leave him as he was around 8 minute pace at that point. The last 20 minutes were pretty tough but I pushed just a tad on the last long flat straightaway to negative split by about 50 seconds, right around 43:00 for the way back. Tough run overall, and both of my feet were giving me problems pretty much the whole way. Oh well. Finished off the highest mileage week of my life.