Day 300

• 6.41 miles
• 7:49/mile pace
• 0525
• From/To Home
• 30 minutes easy followed by 8 x 1 minute hard with 1 minute recovery between, concluded with 3-4 minutes cool down/return home.  Felt ok on the hardish minutes, the rest felt stiff and achy.  
• 300 means I will now be somewhat nervous counting down the next 66 days as the streak approaches 1 year. 
• 300 is also an often referenced number -- hitting .300, Crystler 300, 300 the movie, bowling a 300, 300 million people in India without power today...yeah, seriously, they had some major power grid failure yesterday. 

Day 293

• 5.83 miles
• 7:48/mile pace
• 0645
• From/To home
• Easy run with 10 x 30 seconds fast with 1 minute recovery.   Felt fine.

Day 272

• 6.13 miles
• 7:40/mile pace
• 0625
• From/To Home
• 30 minutes easy followed by 12 x 25 seconds hard with 1 minute recovery between. 
• About that Garmin GPS watch I'm so thankful to be borrowing from Dean and Kim -- uh...turns out that I thought what Becca and I have was a Garmin 405, like the one I'm borrowing, but in fact we have a Garmin 305...so I have no idea how to work the Garmin 405, yet.   Thankfully today's run didn't require it, so I just need to figure it out by Thursday, which I really should be able to do.

Day 258

• 6.14 miles
• 7:38/mile pace
• 0635
• From/To home
• 30 minutes at 7:45 pace (as prescribed by Mr. McMillan), followed by 12 x 25 second fast efforts with 1 minute recoveries between each.   Was tired before I stared, felt OK during and was tired after, feel fine now. 
• I have run without a shirt on a few times in the past week in an effort to reduce laundry in need of cleaning...this seems to be ineffective.   Whatever shirt I slept in is still in need of a wash, so taking it off to run is pointless, plus upon return sweat gets on many more things if it is still streaming down ones body rather than being contained by the shirt, even if the shirt is soaked.   I guess I'll go back to running with a shirt on...yes, I'm sure those were boo's you heard from all the neighborhood ladies.  Or I could sleep sans shirt, but I'll have to think about that.

Day 251

• 5.32 miles
• 7:44/mile pace
• 0415
• From/To home
• "Easy run" included 11 x 25 second fast efforts with 1 minute recovery between. 

Day 244

• 6.31 miles
• 7:50/mile pace
• 0730
• Mobile, AL
• This felt like a much harder effort than the results would indicate -- felt like I was pushing for the first 5+ miles, though I didn't feel I was going fast, which I wasn't.   The 20 seconds sprints that followed (7 of them) were uninspired as well.  

Day 237

• 7.1 miles
• 7:29/mile pace
• 0627
• From/To home
• 38 minutes at "easy" pace, which turned out to be 7:31/mile pace, followed by 11 x 20 seconds fast with 1 minute recovery between each.   Pretty hard overall, but thankfully not devastating.   Mid-week mileage definitely climbing now that I'm following a specific marathon prep plan.  
• Not worth your time, unless you're at work:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9bt6V6v-JY

Day 230

• 5.31 miles
• 7:57/mile pace
• 0650
• From/To home
• The plan I am still following (two days and counting) called for a 30 to 40 minute easy run followed by 8-10 x 20 second sprints with 1 minute recovery after each...I didn't spring out of bed this morning as I haven't been feeling great, so I had to do the minimum of 30 minutes on the first portion and then did 9 of the 20 seconds followed by 1 minute recoveries.   This was not too taxing overall, but if the write up about the 20 second intervals of hard running is accurate then perhaps it will help improve leg turnover and speed...guess we'll see eventually.