8 miles with Sasha along Provo River, average pace 7:23. Easy running and chatting until towards the end Sasha wanted to do a faster 1/2 mile pick-up. First 1/4 felt easy and I decieded to make a little surge at the 400 to get Sasha going. It worked and Sasha responded and I tucked in behind him. I had thoughts of testing his kick with 100 to go but decieded that it was not in my best interest to kick it into an all out sprint at this point in my training. We hit the 1/2 in 2:40 with 400 splits of 1:25/1:15. The strange thing is the 1:15 actually felt pretty good. Great weather again! | 