I had originally planned to hook up with the Black Sheep for a track workout, but I wanted to be able to get in a few more miles than that plan would allow. So I headed out the door at about 5:25 with a plan to do a five mile warmup, five mile tempo, and five mile cooldown. The warmup miles were nice, I headed up City Creek and back around toward the Capitol before zigzagging up 1st Ave to South Temple and on to 600 E. I was at 5.4 when I arrived at 600 So. where I started the Liberty Park tempo run. My goals was to run sub 5:53 per mile, which I thought was somewhat ambitious for me for a couple of reasons. First, I've only been doing four mile tempo runs on this route and adding another mile would be like . .. well, running another mile. Second, my legs are a little tired. Okay, so the splits were 5:53, 5:56, 5:56, 5:52, 6:04. I don't know what happened on the last mile. Mentally I was really hanging with it, but the legs just weren't responding. Overall, I felt good, though it was a little bit slower than I would have liked. After the tempo run, I had a nice 5 mile wander back home.
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