August 24

Brick day with TnT in Farmington. At 7:00 a.m. Surprised at how few people were there: Coaches Rick & Erika, Stephanie, Mike, Jen Smith & me only. We rode mostly as a group, sometimes 2 packs, rolling hills, and I forced them all to do 25 miles (schedule called for 30 mi, Rick intended to turn back after 9.5.
Participants but not coaches (Rick went home, Erika, who is training for Hartford Marathon, had run 14 miles yesterday) ran. Steph & I quickly left Mike & Jen behind, and went out for 15 min, turned around & did a negative split of 13:30 back. Probably about a 5k, and I felt amazingly strong at the end, given yesterday's 8 miles. It's been years since I ran on consecutive days.
Altogether an encouraging day. Just 3 weeks left!