The last few days

It's been a pretty decent last few days. I ran an easy 13 with Murali on Saturday morning before hopping in the Garden City 5K and ended up pacing a gal through the first 2 miles at about 6:00 pace before she had to back off. Ended up calling that a 16 mile day, although it was probably a bit more than that. Sunday I set out to do 10 miles and my first mile was about 6:20, which felt pretty comfortable, my next couple of miles got faster, down to the 6:14-6:15 range and I held that through about 4 miles until I happened upon the Derkacs brothers, Derek and David, and ran about 4 miles with them at maybe 6:45 to 7:00 pace, I then dropped the pace back down to about 6:10-6:15 for the next couple of miles and added a 1/2 mile cool down to make an 11 mile day.
Tuesday I set out to do 10 X 3 dots with 1 dot recovery. I wanted them to be all at about 5:00 mile pace (1:30 each). I went 1:29, 1;31, 1:32, 1:34, 1:32 and 1:34 before I decided to cut it short. I did another 2 dot section in :55 (about 4:40 pace) to make 2 miles worth of repeats and a solid warm down of 3 + miles. I need to work more on my lactate threshhold as I was going lactic way too early in those shorter intervals. I realized the mental strain of trying to run that fast on my own and it's just taxing. If I had someone to chase or run with it certainly would have been more bearable.
This morning Monica, Derek and I did Hulls Gulch with the big uphill add on at the end. My quads were SCREAMING at me as I was climbing. I could definitely feel the lactic acid from yesterday's workout. Hopefully my legs will 'freshen up' over the next couple of days and I'll be ready to rip on Saturday for the race.