Ready to go for Saturday. Wouldn't have taken yesterday off, but put in a 15 hour work day between lab and tutoring, so that killed off running. Today, I did 4.6 with Holly with 3.1 easy and 1.5 faster. I hesitate to call this marathon pace since they were so fast, but they just felt pretty solid and smooth. First 2 were up to 11th and B, down canyon road, and up city creek a bit, then turned around and ran 1.5 down the 4% average grade at 5:37 pace. Holly didn't want to run quite that fast and was pulling back a little bit over the last bit, but otherwise, it just felt smooth. Legs felt very strong today, and I'm excited to race on Saturday. The only downside at this point is that the weather forecasts don't look great (currently calling for rain and a pretty big headwind). Considering that we're still 4 days out, I'm not putting much stock in it yet though.
I'll do another 4 or 5 easy miles tomorrow, and then do 2 the day before the race.
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