Tempo Tuesday week 1 We ran basically the same loop as last years tempo course other than over by the river we stayed out on the road instead of dropping onto the trail. Today the plan was to do the regular 3 mile warm up. Then 6 miles of tempo and a little over 3 miles of cool down. The warm up went quick and it was time to go. Temps were nice and cool for an August morning in STG. That was one thing we had going for us. I just got going and never looked at the watch. Felt smooth and in control until just after mile 4 and I started to get serious stomach cramps. I fought it off and did ok until about 5.3 and then it really started to hurt. Had to go potty bad. Held on to finish the 6 miles of tempo and then took care of business. Cooled down back home and have spent basically the last 2 hours in the bathroom. Something really jacked my tummy up... maybe it was the bag of BBQ chips I had for dinner last night at the lake or all the other junk food we ate out there instead of a real dinner. Oh well glad to get the tempo stuff back out. Hope to continue to build over the next 6-7 weeks. Hit a 5:39 avg for the tempo miles. Splits: 5:55, 5:33, 5:29, 5:47, 5:32, 5:40 The 4th mile is always slow as you climb up through the industrial park and there was a lot of on coming traffic. I thought this mile would have been way slower considering how bad the stomach was hurting. But looking at the splits I'm pretty happy with the morning.
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