Sasha and I ran up the Provo Canyon from Sasha's house until the area just before bridal veil falls making it 10 miles in 1:14:24. The way out was a slight uphill, with a light headwind during the last 3-4 miles, and the way back was the opposite, although I didn't notice the tailwind, I just assume it was there. After the turn-around we started off our tempo kind of slow, as I was more interested in our pre-tempo discussion. I didn't pay attention to any of our mile splits during the first 3 miles of the tempo. Our splits from the 4th mile of the tempo to the end were: 5:50, 5:35, 5:40, 5:35, 5:37, 5:16, 5:15. I was pushing the pace pretty hard over the last 2 miles, and I wish that I could have gone a little faster, but at least I was under 5:20 pace for those miles and there were a lot of twists and turns as well due to the tunnels and bridges on the river trail. Total time for 20 miles was 2:10:19, finishing the last 10 miles in 55:55.
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