Huntsville, AL: It was a great morning today around 44 with light wind. I wanted to try the tempo that I had planned yesterday today. I started out easy for a couple of miles and felt flat again today. I thought that I would go ahead and do the tempo to see how it went. After the warmup I started the tempo and was planning around 6:30 pace or faster. After getting started I felt like I was really having to push to get the pace. I settled in around 6:45 to see if it got better as I went along. I was able to get through the first mile in 6:43 and I continued to push it. I made the second mile in 6:36 but I was pushing too hard for it to be a tempo run. I backed off at this point and ran easy for about half a mile. After that I picked it back up and ran at MP for 1.5 miles. This felt much better and actually finished pretty strong running the last half around 6:30 pace. I am not sure what happened on the tempo but have just been sluggish all this week. 59:20 (7:25 avg)
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