Really felt like fall this morning. It was 52, cloudy and very windy. The wind made it feel colder than it really was. I planned to do a tempo run this morning. I wanted to do 5 miles at around 6:40 pace. I ran a couple of miles to get warmed up and felt ok but legs still felt tired and heavy. After the 2 mile warmup started the tempo and here are the splits:
1st - 6:42
2nd - 6:35
3rd - 6:30
4th - 6:23
5th - 6:17
Turned out to be a good workout. I was very happy that I was able to lift the pace each mile and I felt pretty relaxed on all but the last mile. The last mile was dead back into a head wind so I pushed pretty hard on that one. So 5 miles in 32:27 for an average of 6:29 per mile. I ran an 8k race back in Aug and my avg pace was 6:31 so this makes me feel like I am making good progress because it was a great day today with the wind and I definitely didn't run this as hard as a race.
8m in 56:45 (7:05 avg) | 