7.6mi, 59:24

The Connells, "Upside-Down"
Anthrax, "I am The Law"
Liz Story, "Escape of the Circus Ponies"
For some reason, I felt inclined to dig up parts of my past and recite various running cadences in the back of my head in my last mile. In the interests of political incorrectness, here they are:

Tanker Cadence:
I want to be an armor crewman
Live a life that's almost human
In my tank I feel no danger
Run right over airborne rangers

Left, Right, Kill:
Running through the jungle
Where it's hot and it's wet
You can't stop running
'Cause you ain't there yet
Well, up jumps a snake
From behind a tree
He says "hey there trooper,
you gotta get by me"
So I reach on back
And pull out my steel
I cut the sucker up
And I have a meal
Singing left right, right your left right kill!
Left right, right you know I will!

Running through the desert
Where it's hot and it's dry
You can't stop running
'Cause you're going to die
Up jumps a scorpion
From behind a rock
He says "hey there trooper,
get off of my block"
So I reach on back
And pull out my steel
I cut the sucker up
And I have a meal
Singing left right, right your left right kill!
Left right, right you know I will!

Bill Fogarty cadence from James Webb's A Sense Of Honor:
I can run all night. And I can run all day.
And I can run all night. And I will feel all right.
I can run all day. And I will feel okay.
Sentry, on guard, bayonet, in the ribs, in the middle.
Blood. Guts. Blood and guts...

WX at 0600: 37 (3), DP 35 (2), BP 30.32 (1026), Winds NNW 3, RH 93%

Odometer 2: 147.5mi

Z3 throughout. Some additional effort in no man's land going uphills.

I briefly entertained the idea of going for 10.1 this morning, and I woke up early enough where I could have done it, but I'm probably running the risk of overtraining if I attempt to ramp up my mileage that much in one week. Physically I felt fine this morning, but my legs are still tired. This marks the first day in a while I've run positive splits, which is rare for my second 1.5 loop. I didn't take the big hill in that loop at normal effort, and it might have made the difference, since I felt fine on the return leg.

The fact that I ran the 2.5 loop markedly faster is in no small part due to the relative flatness of the first half of that course, and that the hills there are not that big with one exception at the end.

When I was running at St Christopher's, our home course at Roslyn had two small hills before the downhill portion of the course. Roslyn was known for its murderous hills, but to a tactically smart team, they could use the hills to their advantage. The two hills were nominally called "Little Rills," but had more historically been known as "tit rills" due to their similarity to a certain piece of anatomy. Most of the hills in the last mile of my 2.5 loop are tit rill-like in their slope, and if you get enough speed from the previous downhill you can get some return on your investment on the next hill.

Splits
1.5 11:39 11:39 07:46
2.1 28:33 16:54 08:03
1.5 40:25 11:52 07:55
2.5 59:24 18:59 07:36 07:48