Tempo Run. Average pace: 8:34. 33°F, 97% humidity, winds calm, light rain/snow. I drove up to Westminster early this morning to run with Nan. I've heard that if you want to become a faster runner, you should run with someone who's faster than you. So that's what I did today. Nan is A LOT faster than me. According to my training plan, and because I did a hard workout yesterday, I was supposed to do an easy run today. However, I knew that if I tried to do an easy run with Nan, I would run it too fast and it wouldn't really be easy. So I decided just to do tomorrow's tempo run instead, and then I'll run easy tomorrow and on Friday. We did a warm up for the first two miles, though they were a little faster than I usually run my warm up. Splits were 8:56 and 8:42. Then we did 7 miles near my half-marathon pace. Splits were 8:16, 8:17, 8:07, 8:13, 8:20, 8:19, and 8:05. I was pretty beat by that point, so we slowed down for the rest of the run. Splits were 8:58, and 9:27, and then the last half mile at 9:47 pace. We were pretty wet and muddy by the time we finished. Nan had had a nice recovery run and I had had a hard workout.
It was really fun to run with Nan and to get to know her a little bit and to meet her cute family. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Nan for letting me come.
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