I didn't get off work til later today because of frost on the greens (but I did see baby G and Liz doing their run while I was mowing.. that was fun). So it was 3 when I finally got out to run. But it was nice weather and it was one of those runs when I got into a rhythm and I was enjoying it. I was planning on running down to the intersection by Costco and back to my house, which in my head worked out to be about 5 miles (and later I plugged it into Google.. I was right), but the traffic down there was unreal. I knew I was never going to be able to cross by In N Out and the bank, so I turned onto Telegraph and was planning on running a little ways down that road and back.. but the intersections over there were a mess too, and crossing them was really scary, and after doing it once, I didn't want to do it again. So, after much contemplation, I decided keeping myself alive was worth running a little extra distance and turned my run into a loop. I ran up Telegraph, then turned onto Main St. and ran past the fire station into Quail Ridge. I had a pretty good pace going the whole time, but when it came time for the tempo, the pace change wasn't really very big. It took me 45 minutes to do the run, and thanks to Google, I found out my loop is exactly 6 miles, so my average pace for the whole run was 7:30 min/mi. Which is all right.. but my tempo wasn't as fast as it should have been. | 