I am going to treat this entire week as a recovery week and try to keep my pace in check for each run. My plan is to run 28 miles in 5 segments of 5, 4, 7, 4 and 8 miles. I hope that this will protect me from injury and allow me to build my mileage up to a weekly average of 60-70 miles.
Today was a really nice day. I had the day off to celebrate Martin Luther King Day so I took Natalie to the movies. We had a great time.
Then I headed out for a nice easy run around the lake. It was relatively warm but very humid - so I got away without a jacket, but I definitely needed the gloves. My average pace was 8:08, but this was about as easy as I could have run. The first mile was a little slow and the third mile was a little fast, but the other three were within two seonds of my average pace. A very good recovery run.
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