5/18/11 (Wednesday) Run

Today I ran 7 miles in 50:33.  I tried to mimick the same run I did during my taper week for the SLC half-marathon.  I warmed up to 8.1 mph and ran that until the 3.5 mile mark.  I then ran 2X800 meter intervals at 9.3 mph with a one minute recovery at 8.1 mph between intervals.  By this time I was almost at the 5 mile mark so I decreased back to 8.1 mph until the 6 mile mark.  I increased it to .1 mph for the next two quarterr miles and then by .1 mph for each tenth of a mile at mile 8.60.  I thought it took me 3 seconds longer to run the 7 miles than last time but I actually ran it 7 seconds faster than last time, so I obviously did something different but cannot remember exactly what it was.