T - 15?(I think) : Discipline

This morning's run was tough, but we did great! it was all about
staying disciplined on pace keeping.

2 mile warmup to a track. 1 mile all out. I'd been talking all week
about a sub 5 min mile, but knew 5:10 was more likely. Ended up with
a 5:13. Not too shabby as I had Gel's for 24 miles worth, and all
kinds of other stuff bouncing around. Plus, it's not like we've been
training to run a mile!
I gave it all I had; with 150 metres to go, I thought "ok, time to let
it rip" but I quickly realized there was no higher gear! Still shaved
13 seconds off my prior record!
Weird thing happened tho, after the run my lymph nodes felt sore and
swollen and I had a blood/tin taste in my mouth. It's now 6 hours
later and my left node is still sore. Sisson said it's normal to get
that when you go anaerobic for too long. Guess I went as hard as I
could!
We then ran about 2-3 mile recovery, then ran 10 miles and Marathon
Goal Pace (7:15). We worked hard at holding back and all 10 miles
were within +/- 5 seconds off pace, so that's a definite plus! After
the 10 miles we had a 2 mile recovery pace over to the start of about
5 miles of hills. Our pace hovered between 7:25 and 7:45 throughout
the recovery and the hills. We had to contain ourselves to run yw last
mile home at 7:50'ish.
Real happy with the performance, but I'll admit that I was pretty darn
tired for the last 3 miles. It was nice to feel some fatigue. Bruce
said he'd send me the real splits at some point, an I'll post those.
Total run around 23.3 miles.

After 230 runs, and 2,400+ miles, I finally enter 2 weeks of taper
before raceday. I look forward to relaxing a bit for two weeks then
feeling ridiculously amp'd up for race day!
BRING IT ON!