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Game day and final marathon prep run

April 11, 2019 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Ran w/ Anthony and Nomi for 32 minutes hunting for strollers. We found 29, though we had to penalize ourselves 3 strollers for being 3 minutes past the time limit. Still, we had the highest stroller-per-minute ratio of any group! I awarded myself a water bottle from the stash of crap Llewellen was trying to get Anthony to foist off on us all.

Afterward, got home and ran 3.5 miles at marathon pace, supposedly. I averaged around 6:30 and I'm ashamed that it definitely felt hard. I'm regretfully starting to face the fact that I may really have blown all those weeks for hard training by taking too much time off last week for a what has turned on to be a rather mild injury (which, all that time off hasn't cured). Really wish I hadn't done a long run 2 weekends ago when my hamstring tendon first started bothering me - the following 4 days off really weren't worth it, given I had no way to cross train in Bosnia.

Be that what it may, come Monday I'm just gonna try my best.