3 easy a.m. 1 mi warmup and some strides to get legs going 5.2 mile time trial with the XC team, I was really hoping to get a good tempo in. Hilly course and I have not done any sort of hill running in a long time (and it showed!) Only real goal was to break 35 and get sub 7 pace for sure. Stayed with top 3 for first 2.5 but they started to break away. I kept same pace thinking that heat would bring them back to me, it almost worked caught two of them but big hill at end kept me from the first place and kept me from sub 35, ended at 35:22. Compared to last August of 34:54. I am ok with this run since I am coming off my biggest mileage week and legs were pretty tired 1.5 cooldown and some strides/form running | 