6 easy

Today starts a new week and the goal is to hit or go a little over 80 miles. I'm home visiting my family in Houston for labor day so I ran alone here through the streets I once ruled in my high school days.
This morning I ran 6 miles pretty easy, although it was a bit tough for just 6:51 pace. I left my good shoes at school on accident so i had to wear some old ones I had here so I'm sure that had something to do with how the run felt.
Tomorrow we got another workout at the prittchet track so I got that to look forward to.

On another subject, my brother had a 6mile ppm(pace per mile) run today for his practice. He ran really impressively. Especially the part where he PRed his 4mile at 22:45 after it was 23:08 before.
The point of a ppm run is to basically go out blazing and hold your top speed as long as you can. Sounds tough, and indeed it is, but if you can do it longer and longer every time you do it, your times and VO2 max improve drastically.
He split 5:23, 10:55(5:32),16:50(5:55), 22:45(5:55), he died after that and finished 6 in like 36:10 but he got the benifit of the workout. Now he needs to go out that pace the next couple of times he does this run and I guarantee you that he runs sub 35 minutes for 6. It's good stuff, hopefully he does it.