A beautiful morning for a run. I got out a little late this morning. I picked up a cold last weekend after getting up so early to run. It hasn't been that bad, but the effects are kind of still lingering around. I tried to sleep in if I could. Stacie didn't get out with me--she went later. I could have used her at the end, but it was still a pretty good run. I've done this route, or something very similar, four times now and I thought it would be interesting to see how I did. I guess I should go read the blog entries for these runs. My fastest time was the first time I ran it: July 30. Time was 1:57:36. My second fastest time was 1:59:17 about a month ago: Aug 20. Both of these were before the blood donation. Today I ran it in 1:59:22, which beat my time from two weeks ago by 22 seconds. Two weeks ago was the day Stacie and I raced the last couple of miles. My 8:22 final mile is still the fastest mile from any of these runs. This was good, because the run felt a little slower than two weeks ago--yet it wasn't. I was thinking that I needed the race at the end, but it turned out I didn't. This was also the day after a four mile pace run--which was the only one with a run day prior. I went biking on the first run. The other two followed rest days. Bottom line, apart from the lower red blood cell count, I'm in better shape and might be ready to run this marathon in two weeks. I'm looking forward to an easy week next week.
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