Sasha and his family are passing through town, so they stayed with us last night and I ran with Sasha this morning. It is the first time in a while that I have run with someone else. I ran to school, and Sasha went with me and then turned around after 5 miles, and I continued on the rest of the way to school alone. We kept the pace fairly easy. Total time of 1:04:33 for 8.6 miles. PM: I ran home from school today with a total time of 55:11. I ran what I will call a 5 mile tempo on the way back in 28:11. I was not too pleased with the time for the tempo. I am not sure what it is, but in the evenings I have issues going much faster than 5:40 when I am on the way home from school. I started the tempo at sub 5:20 pace for the first mile, and then turned onto Eastern Ave, where I was hit with strong but sporadic gusts of wind for the last 4 miles. When there was wind I can understand slowing a little bit (especially owing to the fact that I was wearing a coat and it acts like a sail when the wind hits it), but I wasn't going any faster even when there was no wind. I can't even pull out the fatigue card this time and say I was tired, as I felt fine before the tempo and I hadn't run anything hard since last Saturday. Anyhow, there is something that maybe I am just not seeing that makes this stretch of road super slow. I will hopefully figure it out someday.
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