I actually took my own advice and slowed down. It allowed me to run 7 out of 8 days so far in July (with one scheduled rest day). I've got 27.44 miles in so far so almost 4 miles a day at a 9:02 average pace. including a couple of runs in the middle of 90+ degree and sunny afternoons.
My legs have taken the effort well and feel less fatigued than they have for a while and my motivations is doing ok too. So far I'm on pace for over 100 miles this month. I've only broken the 100 mile plateau once in the past 3 years so doing so would be a good sign of progress.
I've been following a Garmin automated training plan. So far it pretty much tells me to run between 32 and 42 minutes at 9:20 pace every day. Sometimes I'll look ahead and it will hint that maybe I'll run something different but then the next day I wake up and it tells me to run 9:20 pace. I've been running closer to 9 minutes than 9:20 but still have been slowing myself way down compared to 8:30. Its kind of been nice to have a plan and I'll try to keep following it until the end of July at least and then reevaluate.
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