An easy 8 miler through Wissahickon Park/Mt. Airy/Roxborough. I have been a little tired of running the same old routes and I mixed it up a bit tonight running streets I have never been down before.

My legs felt good despite the 16 miles yesterday and I stretched a planned 6 miles into about 8 in 62 minutes. This puts me at 61.7 miles for the week at an average 7:37 pace.

I was looking back over my training log this evening and comparing last years marathon build up to this years by distance and pace. I noticed that my average pace for all of 2005 was 7:46. My average pace so far this year is 7:45. I've gotten an entire second quicker per mile. I knew all of these miles were paying off.