WEEKLY SUMMARY (March 10-16): 40 miles (55% E, 33% half marathon, and 12% 8k paces)
  Sunday: 2 mile warm up, then 8k race in 30:13 (see below)
  Monday: 6 easy at 7:34/mi.
  Tuesday: off
  Wednesday: 7 miles at 7:18/mi.
  Thursday: 7 miles at 7:17/mi.
  Friday: off
  Saturday: half marathon race in 1:31:16 (see below)

This week I didn't run enough miles, as usual for some time now, and too few of the miles I did run were easy. I did run the half marathon rather slowly, but still my average pace for the week was 7:06/mi. compared with 7:17/mi. for all of 2013 so far before today (Saturday). That's pretty much inevitable for a week with races on a Sunday and again the following Saturday. But this low mileage is really getting ridiculous. Next week I plan to run easy until the weekend, and the mileage just needs to get higher. Today's half marathon was a wake up call that I'm not in the shape I'd like to be in. My hip injury knocked me off course but it's doing well enough to run more now. Anyway, my injury wasn't nearly as bad as Michael Wardian's multiple stress fractures, and look what he managed to do today. (We're the same age, by the way). There are three weeks until the Cherry Blossom 10-miler, and it's time for me to get crackin'.