AM: 5 miles, a couple of striders (6). PM: Likely skipping the track 5k. Game time decision I guess. I suppose in the end I want to be very healthy for the winter, and I am starting to learn my body now entering my 7th year of running (it'll be 6 years ago on Tuesday since I started! Happy run birthday to me!), Therefore, I can kind of tell running two hard 5k races in 12 hours isn't the best idea at least currently. Although it'd be nice and more mangeable to PR on a race with tons of faster runners and a rubber track, on the other hand it's the dead of summer in Florida. In other words, I'd be a fool to expect to run a top-notch race with such heat, humidity, and dewpoint. I am feeling much more relaxed with this decision and can chase a PR later on in the season and can just have fun tomorrow 's road 5k instead. Fortunately, tomorrow's course is probably the only truly accurate one in the series, so at least I can gauge my fitness a bit and start comparing some numbers to last year to update my expectations for my half and marathon coming up. | 