This may be my last marathon for a while

Runs (some overlap from last week's blog)
Mon- Rest
Tues- 5miles
Wed- 9 miles, (2 warm up, 5x1000 at 6:45 pace, 3 cooldown) 
Thurs-12 miles (great run, ran many miles in the low 8s)
Fri-Rest
Sat- 5 miles-recovery effort
Sun - 17 miles, 14 at MP (avg 7:33, many into the wind miles)

Total: 48 miles

Mon:- Rest

Tues: - Rest- my legs felt trashed from Sunday and I got out of work too late to do my run.

Wed: 8 miles (4 warm up, 5x1000 at 6:20 pace, 2 cooldown) -  my legs still feel tired, but I was very encouraged that my pains get better at faster speeds and that I was able to keep splits of (2:26, 2:18, 2:23. 2:26. 2:22 after running 4 miles)

II was very encouraged by the fact that I was able to do 14 miles at very close to MP. My MP is 7:27, and I averaged 7:33. My slow miles were into the wind, but I didn't speed up to compensate when I  was withteh wind. The only negative was I took Ibuprofen before the run. I did that with my first marathon when I had ITB issues. I didn't need it for marathons 2 and 3. Ideally I wouldn't do it, but seeing the glimmer of hope that I can get a 3:15 makes me think that I will use Ibuprofen to get through the hardest runs (mainly the long runs) and take some extra days off during the taper.

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