Today was a hilly (rolling) 8 miles that I ran at an average pace of 9:21. I wouldn't say I felt on top of the world or anything, but I do feel that I'm acclimating to the greater mileage and feeling like 8 miles really isn't so hard anymore. My quandry is whether I should move to 9 miles per day next week. I feel ready, but I'm out of town on "vacation". If you call a vacation taking my son to play baseball for a week . . .lol. I am concerned about where I will run and when I will squeeze it in. The long run will be 17 miles. Yikes! For some reason, running long on my home turf doesn't scare me, but away from home kinda does. Even though I guess technically I could come up with a loop and do repeats. Sigh. My gut feeling is to stick with the 8's and make sure I get my long run in, and then move up to 9 miles per day the following week. | 