I hardly slept at all last night. I was a ball of stress over my practice session for my dissertation defense with my advisor today. I didn’t feel very well prepared and I woke up feeling horrible. I knew that a good run would help my mood, so I laced up the shoes and headed out the door.
This is the first week my middle run has hit 7 miles and it certainly doesn’t seem like too long ago that my long run was 7 miles and I was struggling to finish. I have to say that after my 13 mile run on Saturday, today’s 7 miler felt like nothing. I even ran the last mile in 7:26, finishing in just under 1 hour. Back on July 21, I ran 7 miles in 1 hour and 18 minutes. I’ve come a long way.
Oh, and the practice session went really well too.
Planned workout
1 mile warmup
7 miles at 9:15 pace
1 mile cool down
Actual workout
1 mile warmup
7 miles at 8:32 pace
1 mile cool down
When is your actual defense? Good luck.
It’s on Monday. I feel a lot better about it now after the practice session. I’ll be glad when the whole thing’s over and I can finally put school behind me.