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Temp 65 Wind 14 mph.
B2B Long Run (Day Two). Have 105 minutes with 60:00 at 50K effort on the calendar. Daylight and Hoops 4 shirt matches slime green shoes...look like a damn jogger. Warm, windy, with bouts of light to steady rain. Embrace it and go to work. Shake out with 2.23 miles at 8:21 average pace.
Have an idea for a Frisco training route in the park. Double loop with a reverse in the middle. Will be between 3.5 and 4.0 miles total and using the crushed gravel trails and sections of the XC course to make about 40% of it off road.
Took off a tad quick and went through first mile at 7:47. Relaxed, got back under control, and had settled on a 7:52 average pace by about the 20:00 minute mark. Very comfortable and spent the rest of the time playing a fun game of think-on-my-feet tactics and execution. Looking for surges with no cardio costs when available, chillin' when chillin' was a good idea, and making gravity my friend when possible. Every mile after first in 7:50 to 7:56 range. Averaged 7:52 for the full hour. Don't have to be near this fast for the state record. May not have to be this fast to win.
Another 2.76 miles at 8:59 average pace to run out the clock. Quarter, dime, nickel, and three pennies.