Into a corner

Last week: 30 miles
This week:
Wednesday am, 8.1 miles, 1:05
Thursday am, 6.1 miles, :46

I painted myself into a corner by sleeping in on Monday and Tuesday,
which means no rest for the remainder of the week. I had plenty of
thoughts about yesterday's run that I should have written down, but it's
too late now.

This morning was a sub-tempo run; same course as before, but wanted to
run it a bit faster and I took a .5 mile bite out of my cooldown to
extend the effort portion. I was out the door by 5:50 and jogged slowly
through the warmup until I hit Adeline. I picked up the pace
immediately, and hit the first split (just over 1 mile) in 7:13 (7:16
last week). I thought I'd shot my wad, though, and really had to work
to pull myself through the next mile. I was pleased and surprised to
see the mile split come in at 6:46 (6:59), and then I hauled ass
downhill. It felt smooth and easy, but went fast - 6:14 (6:23). The
last half mile, down to Sacramento St, went down in 3:08.

It was gratifying to see some improvement in this run, and that should
help me get out of bed early the next couple of days.