I was poking around on runnersworld.com while I was covering the reception desk at my internship today, and read up on pacing. My schedule has paces listed and they're quite a bit slower than what I can do, but I didn't realize why until I started reading some of the training articles. I've been doing my long runs and some of the easy runs too fast (not necessarily on purpose--I just have trouble gauging), so tomorrow I'm going to really concentrate on slowing it down. I made another playlist with some slower but still steady/driving songs, and I'm going to try the one-breath-for-two-strides thing. If that doesn't work, I'll probably end up playing around with a treadmill to see if I can figure out what it's supposed to feel like that way.

This week's plan...

Wednesday: rest!
Thursday: 5 miles, weights
Friday: spinning with Linda, abs
Saturday: 7 miles
Sunday: hour swim
(I might have to swap Saturday and Sunday if it's raining when I wake up, but I'd really rather not. I'm hoping I get out early enough to beat it.)
Monday: spinning, weights
Tuesday: 2 miles, 40-45 min swim