September

Summary:
I stopped struggling in September and started progressing. The keys to this were:

• 3 hill workouts per week
  
• Consistent schedule of track workouts on Mon and Wed, trail on Thu, Sat and Sun, easy on Tue and Fri
  
• Gradual increase of 1 mile per week for track workouts (combined) and 1 mile per week on long run.
  

Mon	Pace	Tue	Wed	Pace	Thu	Vert	Fri	Sat	Vert	Pace	Sun	Vert	Total	Vert
			4				5	16.93	2962	14:10	7.5	1378	48.5	5140
7	8:11	4	9	7:52	7.5	1378		18.18	3336	13:02	7.5	1378	53.3	6092
7	8:22	3.25	10	7:52	7.5	1378		19.86	3812	12:56	7.5	1378	55.2	6568
7	7:36	4	10	7:28	7.5	1378		21.88	4485	16:27	7.5	1378	58	7241
7	7:54	4			7.5	1378							49.7	7717

Note that I hit my goal pace of 7:30 for my long tempo run. Now all I have to do is double the distance.
Note also that I have 2 miles warmup/warmdown for my track workouts so the actual miles for Monday topped out at 5 and Wed at 8.