You'd think I've learned my lesson

...but I haven't. Double knot your shoes,double knot your shoes. It takes two extra seconds and its not like it affects my running or the shoe. But yet this morning when I was tying my shoes I thought I'll just regular knot and low and behold what should happen. You guessed it, my right shoe came untied on my last mile repeat. I was about half a mile done with that 4th mile when I noticed it, shake it off I told myself. Then it got looser and looser, I can see the quarter mile mark approaching...I have to stop. Stop the watch, loose my pace, tie the shoe. It was fine and I actually ended up finishing that last mile in 7:45. I tried to run 8 min/mile and felt good. I did a quarter mile recovery in between but I felt ready to go again. Its nice to know that I can maintain this distance. Next week I think I'll go back to to 2 mile repeats and try and keep up the 8 min pace for 2 miles. But it was a good run this morning and the warm weather makes it so much more bearable. But I still just keep thinking every day, 20 miles this week, 20 miles this week. I think about it when I wake up, I think about it when I go to sleep, I just have to keep telling myself I can do it!