MDay-64 -- Sat. July 18

Aiming more for a donut run today, and combining it with a bike ride and an outing with R. Biked roads to Quabbin, then parked and did stretches, leaving my bike and running up the road to the tower -- pushing R when he got tired, which was quite often, so it was an extra workout, and not fast. Paused at the top: tower was closed due to the rainstorm last night, so not much viewing as I didn't have a quarter for the binocular machine either; still, R got a break, and then we were on the way down again. Of course, this was fast: no pushing needed, and I slowly stretched out until I was making a good sub 6:00 pace -- one mile, most of which was downhill, came in at 5:43. Then kept stride long and pushed hard across the dam, keeping in the low 6:00s to end up with this (stopped clock back at the bike, by the state police place):

Time: 40 mins
Distance: 5.39 miles
Pace: 7:25s

Comment: rounds out a good three day end to the week, all at marathon pace (and 27 some miles, a three-part marathon!). Also, biked a total of 9 miles, at gentle pace.
Next week, back to the schedule!