Middle Road loop. It was about 40 degrees this morning. I started out easy but I noticed a guy about 1 minute ahead of me a mile into the run. I chased him down over the next 2 miles and we chatted for a bit. He figured I wanted to run faster since I had closed on him so quickly. I didn't realize we had sped up until we hit a headwind while heading up a steep hill. So... it turned into a tempo run for me. He was in much better shape, so I just tried to hang on. Splits for the tempo miles: 7:13, 7:13, 7:21, 7:53 (huge hill), 7:00. 162 BPM during the tempo and I hit 170 BPM on the hill. Overall time: 50:09 over 6.77 miles. |