There was so much riding on my scheduled long run today, this is the last long run before the goal race I have been training for for the past 14 weeks but the last 2 long runs have been hard and completely off pace, even thou they were only suppose to be run at base pace. This week my legs have been great and I have been able to train on pace as scheduled so with a more challenging run of 8 miles at marathon pace scheduled for today, I needed this run as a confident booster for next week. Woke up early and ate a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, never had cereal before a run before and also made a mix of energy and electrolyte drink for the road. Did my dynamic flexibility warmup and then off I went to conquer my Marathon pace demons. Did my 1 mile warmup then set the Garmin virtual partner for 8 miles @ 9:20 pace, my goal was to run at marathon pace or faster as long as it felt comfortable and not that I am pushing and also not to fade at the end. The 8 miles went great, the weather was slightly cold when I started but I warmed up real fast and was sweating by mile 2, had on Brooks Skort and Adidas sleeveless top. Had on a new pair of the Mizuno Wave Inspire 4 that I found on sale at Dick's and bought since I had a $20 gift card/coupon combo, I bought this in a woman's size which I hardly ever do since the toe box are always too narrow. Oh I digress... Mile 2 was actually 9:12, I stopped to adjust my mp3 player since the music playing was depressing me. There is also a discrepancy with mile 4, Gamin indicate 8:35 pace and I do not remember stopping but got a GPS weak signal beep. all in all a very good training run my legs were fine, the shoe is not perfect but will work for shorter runs. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 991 ft Location: Solon, OH Elev. Gain: +72 ft Date: 05/23/09 Up/Downhill: [+567/-495] Time: 07:00 AM Difficulty: 3.2 / 5.0 Weather: A Few Clouds 52 F temp; 50% humidity 52 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 8.01 miles Time: 1:12:58 Speed: 6.6 mph Pace: 9' 07 /mi Heart Rate: 160 bpm (Avg) Calories: 955 173 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 184 - 204 0h 00m 0% 0.00 mi Zone 4 163 - 184 0h 24m 33% 2.69 mi Zone 3 143 - 163 0h 51m 69% 5.45 mi Zone 2 122 - 143 0h 01m 1% 0.12 mi Zone 1 102 - 122 0h 01m 1% 0.04 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0% 0.00 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 53 -0' 14 6.8 +0.2 154 +43 ft 2 11' 04 +1' 57 5.4 -1.2 153 -23 ft 3 9' 26 +0' 19 6.4 -0.2 158 +9 ft 4 9' 04 -0' 03 6.6 +0.0 158 +10 ft 5 9' 25 +0' 18 6.4 -0.2 161 -3 ft 6 8' 59 -0' 08 6.7 +0.1 161 +16 ft 7 9' 26 +0' 19 6.4 -0.2 164 +13 ft end 9' 06 -0' 01 6.6 +0.0 166 +13 ft Versus average of 9' 07 min/mile

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