WEEKLY SUMMARY (August 19-25): 70 miles (78% at E, 18% at M, and 4% at T paces)
  Sunday: 1.2 mile warm-up, Leesburg 20k in 1:23:06 (6:41/mi.), 1.5 mile cool-down (15 miles total)
  Monday: 6.7 miles at 8:03/mi.
  Tuesday: 9.2 miles at 7:41/mi.
  Wednesday: 10.1 miles at 7:37/mi.
  Thursday AM: 2 miles easy, 3 miles T at 6:22/mi., 2 miles easy (7 miles total)
  Thursday PM: 3.4 mile family jog pushing a stroller at 9:29/mi.
  Friday: 10.6 miles at 7:37/mi.
  Saturday: 8 miles at 7:55/mi.

I was nowhere near as tired after my marathon pace 20k on Sunday (see below) as I was after the long tempo workout last week. That seems to provide some confirmation that I didn't run too hard and that I have some chance of running a full marathon somewhere around that pace. But I still took three easy days afterwards and shortened the secondary workout of the week, on Thursday, to an ordinary 3 mile tempo run. It was my first trip to the park on a non-rainy day since returning from Greece, but the National Park Service was not about to let me get away with it. They had set up crop sprinklers all along the 3 mile loop, drawing filthy water from the Potomac River to water grass, trees, and other plants on both sides of the road, presumably because of the drought that has hit the region, like much of the country, this summer. This essentially involved watering the road itself and anyone driving, biking, or running on it. Normally the park is full of walkers, bikers, and runners at all hours, but I was almost the only person to brave the powerful sprinklers on Thursday morning. So I was doused with a stream of stinky water moving at high velocity roughly every 50 meters or so. This comical situation helped dissuade me from attempting the longer (but not long) tempo workout that Daniels had scheduled for the day, which I wasn't up to in any case. The percentage of easy miles I ran this week was already dangerously low, I now realize, and that would only have made it worse. My legs and lower back are unusually tight now, and those percentages explain why. At least I got back up to 70 miles this week. Next week is my best chance to increase volume any further, if I can manage it, since the primary quality day on the schedule is a steady long run, which I'll keep easy.