Today I wanted to do one last tempo run before my race on Sat to get an idea of pace for the race. Last week I tried a tempo run at 6:50 pace and that seemed to hard to maintain for 13 miles so this week I thought I would drop back and try a 5 mile tempo at 7:10 pace to see how I would feel. Started off with a warmup then jumped into the tempo run. I hit the first mile right on pace in 7:11. It felt pretty easy so I picked it up a little. Here are the splits from the other miles: 1st - 7:11 2nd - 7:06 3rd - 7:04 4th - 6:57 5th - 6:47 All of the miles felt pretty comfortable except the last which I pushed too hard. Based on this I am thinking I should plan on going out around 7:05 pace and then make adjustments based on how I feel. I hoped to be a lot better than this but my training in Feb/Mar really suffered so not sure I should expect more. So now I will just to a couple of easy runs on Thur and Fri so I hopefully will be ready to go on Sat. 51:48 | 