Tempo Tuesday. A little intro: Yesterday I took the boat out and got to the Quail Creek Lake at 10 a.m. The entire lake was glass and we were the only boat there for the next 3+ hours. And only two of us wanted to board. So I beat the crap out of myself wakeboarding. Lots of hard crashes.... then on the way home I stopped at Del Taco and loaded up on cheap, spicy, processed food. Then I worked in the yard for about 3 hours that evening in the +100F temps. Long story short it all showed up this morning in the tempo run. I've got to start preparing better Monday so I can run better on Tuesday... or any day pre big workout or run for that matter. We did the usual 3 mile warm up. Then 6 miles at tempo and 3.6 miles of cool down. My tempo avg was 5:45. Slower than last time I did this workout (5:39). No real cause for concern as it's not supposed to be real fast anyways. But the overall effort today was too hard for the pace. I ran fairly even most of the run with the slowest mile being around 5:53 and the fastest one being 5:28. But it all felt labored. Nothing fluid. After the cool down with Dave and Logan I got home and had to go to the potty BAD. Then I still had some time before Mik'L had to leave on her run so I ran around the Little Valley loop for another 2.4 miles to even it up for 15 for the day.
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