On Saturday my friend was asking everybody if they'd ride with him today, so I agreed to join him for a quick 20 (which gave him 45, from his house) before my hair appointment even though I knew I needed to run today. I hate riding shorter distances than my long runs!

But anyway, I was still a little sore from Friday and figured I should just do a short run. Three laps of the one-mile fitness trail, about 3/4 mile warmup and the rest of it @8:35. I was really trying to keep closer to my target marathon pace (9:20), but apparently that just is not a natural pace for me. I've been able to settle into a pace pretty close to that, when I ran the half last fall, and for the last half of the marathon I did in May, but I just can't seem to find it on a short training run. Hmmm. Gotta get my footpod calibrated better, I know (I had to move it back to my laces, and it's totally off now, so I've been getting pace from the GPS which is really not much use for real-time pacing).