Mile warm-up, followed by easy 6.5 mile run. Aaron had a dentist appointment that morning so he did the workout while we warmed up, coaches told him we were doing a 50 minute tempo run. For everyone else the coaches changed their minds and decided to go easy pace. For the first 1.5 miles Christian, Jordan, Austin and I were in the front. Christian slowed down and they sped up, I following. Eventually I realized they kept trying to pick up the pace so they could beat me or something, so I slowed down, telling myself I'd speed up at the last 2 miles. When we hit the 4.5 I started striding out and doing low 6's, blowing past the other two who were slowing down from surging. It wasn't too hard, my legs felt heavy though. I finished with about 3 minutes on the other guys. Splits;
6:59
7:19
7:14
7:07
6;25
6:04
With the last half mile being a 6:05 pace. Overall felt pretty easy. Strides and cooldown after added up to a little over 8. Averaged a 6:48 pace. Aaron said he averaged 6:50 on his tempo run, so I felt pretty solid.
2.5 mile Shakeout that evening. 6:06 pace. Nothing too awful. Core, strides, stretches, and lifting after
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