Tuesday 081109

• AM – ten miles. Easy for five (av HR 145, max 150, rolling terrain – ave pace ~7:55, inc warm up mile of 8:45), then accelerated slightly and ran at 7:22 pace (av HR 160, generally slightly uphill, max 170 on finish up hill), then jogged an easy mile.
• When I read stuff like this, it makes me feel like I have not done squat to train (although – after posting this, and getting some comments, I am cognizant I make choices with my life I am happy with)... I had workouts in this segment that I can easily say were the toughest of my career. A 30 mile day with a 10k tempo (4:59 pace) built into the second run was one of the toughest days of my life.
• … of course, then there is consistency like this. 
• JM has his PPM predictions up.  He does a great job with this but he does need to include himself in the top ten.  A little side by side comparison:
  

	JM sez …	GZ sez …
1	Carpenter	Carpenter
2	Mejia	Mejia
3	Parker	Parker
4	Dayton	Dayton
5	Boettcher	Boettcher
6	Heneghan	Ricks
7	Van de Kamp	Mock
8	Ricks	Smiley
9	GZ	… undecided
10	Dignum

• I go undecided between an De Kamp, Heneghan, Dignum, Feucht,  Compagnoni, Fain, Reed, Ryan, Ghezzi , Heller, Seymour and myself.  A whole slew of guys (12 listed here)  in that 4:10 to 4:30 range, looking for top ten spots (with only a couple left) will keep it interesting back there.