Cold and snowy outside this morning so I was on the treadmill. 8 miles last 6 all under 8 min. Was thinking about pace and wondering how much is in ones head. It seems like I mostly run the pace I expect myself to be able to run. Now maybe I am just so dead on accurate about my ability at this age that my expectations are on target, but maybe my expectations just limit my pace. As I was running those 8 min miles it wasn't really that hard. My hope is that I can run low 8's in an upcoming 5 miler. Seems reasonable. Maybe if my hope was to run closer to 7:30 then I would have turned up the pace on the treadmill and found that 7:30 wasn't as impossible as it sounds to my brain.
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