Today was my last real run before the race on Sunday. I ran 6 miles, doing the fast 2x800 thing again. The weather was gorgeous this afternoon after some big rain yesterday. This run makes me feel like crap, but it's astounding to me to run at what feels like a snail's pace during the cool-down part of it and realize I'm running at a sub-9 minute pace. This is speedwork that I definitely feel pays off for the race. I'll do one more easy run of 4 miles or so tomorrow or Thursday, depending on the weather, and then take it easy until the race.
Alan left me a voicemail that he's holding out slim hope of making it here for the race. Don't tease me.
I started listening to a new podcast on my run Saturday and continued today. It's called Hardcore History and I'm really enjoying it so far. The first one I listened to was an interview, and the second was about the Apaches. What was cool was that he talked about the area where I grew up, and before he even listed the locale and was talking about the names of some of the major players in the history of the Apache I was thinking to myself this sounded really familiar. This podcast was recommended to me by my neighbor Shawn, who said that the best ones were the episodes regarding the eastern front in WWII. I'm taking the episodes in order, so I'll get there eventually. Who knew you could combine running and history? Good stuff.
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