Everyone in our house slept a little better last night and I was able to get out the door to meet Josh at 5:45 for a Big Workout. We ran a four mile warmup over to 900 So. and 2100 E. From there, we ran a seven mile marathon pace tempo run. The route took us down 2100 E, across 2100 So. through the gully, continuing on 2000 E past 3300 South, then back through mostly neighborhood streets until we reached about 1600 E. and 1600 So. Mile splits were 6:09, 6:04, 6:04, 6:02, 5:57, 5:49, 5:48. The first few miles were kind of tough to get the engine moving but I felt genuinely pretty good in the last few miles. Average time was just under 6 minutes for the tempo miles. Hard to say if that's my actual marathon pace these days, but this was a good way to test whether I can hold 6 min pace over distance right now. We had a long cooldown on 1500 E and back through the U to head home. | 