16 mile Big Workout this morning. 3 mile warm-up and then 2 mile, 1 mile, 2 mile, 1 mile, 2 mile at LT pace with a 2 min rest/ jog for recovery in between repeats and finished with a 5 mile cool-down. I ran a lone today. I actually spaced calling the guys last night and figured it would all work out anyways. So I went to the DS at 6 a.m and ran the 3 mile warm-up north bound. Then started the tempo miles on our regular Tinman course. The splits went like this: 2 miles- 5:39, 5:40- really hard to get things going today. 1 mile- 5:30 2 miles- 5:31, 5:34- feeling o.k but not great on the last three miles 1 mile- 5:59- through the turns of the parking lot and then uphill most of this mile 2 mile- 5:48, 5:49- Really not in the zone but running o.k for just being weird. I developed a massive blister on my left foot's little toe somewhere in the middle of the tempo miles. It's been years since I had a blister of any significants. I know I run a lot but I've really never got any blisters and this one really hurts. It's like as big as the toe it's self. So anyways that started hurting during the tempo miles and really hurting during the cool-down. Also during the cool-down the diaphragm got really tight. Hopefully this is just a day in and day out type of tight. Glad to have did the workout. I was trying to talk myself out of it all day yesterday and even this morning. I'm going to stay on schedule this week with my training as if I was going to run TOU half on Saturday. The if we do end up going up it will work out and if we don't I'll run some kind of 13.1 mile tempo thing on Saturday where ever we end up going or not going... (Black Stratus- 83.1)
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