March 6

AM: 13 miles moderate
PM: 6 miles easy

I met David Roche at my place for an extended Forest Hills-WaDuke loop. Despite the hills, we hummed along cooly at 6:20 pace. The big revelation of the day was that he ran a 4.41 40-yard dash in college, which helps soften the memories of him dusting me in the last quarter-mile of various workouts and races.

I felt tired in the afternoon, but my legs still had a surprising amount of pop in them as I went out again on the ATT and Forest Hills Park. I've deliberately scheduled a low-key spring break to give myself a sort of training mini-camp for Boston this week and next. That means I've been good about staying on the little things that are too easy to neglect when working full-time or during the school year: core, strength work, drills, and a lot of sleep.