35 degrees when I woke up which was a little colder than I had hoped, but nothing compared to the 15 degree weather my poor teammates were running in in Utah. Seriously, it is so much easier to be a serious runner on the west coast than other parts of the U.S.
We did a 10 mile power run. I feel good about it because I feel pretty healthy afterwards which was my main goal, and each mile was faster than the previous one up until mile 10, which means I did a good job running within myself. I ran past some fire damage on the bike path but thankfully I didn't have to turn around early- just did 5 miles goin south and back from Bear Creek park.
Supposed to do 2 x 6:00, 2 x 5:40, 2 x 5:20, 2 x sub 5:10, 2 x sub 5:00. I ran [5:50, 5:44, 5:37, 5:33, 5:14, 5:10, 5:04, 5:04, 4:58, 5:01]. Averaged 5:20 for 10 miles, 5:12 for the last 8 miles. 5:03 for the last five miles. Overall that's pretty good. I love this type of workout. It reminds me I think of the importance of "warming up" to a fast pace. Like I sincerely don't know if I could have done a five mile tempo at the pace of the last five miles, especially given my previous workouts here.
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