Nice morning (70) with a little more humidity. Today I planned on doing a 4 mile tempo run. I have been kind of flat the last couple of weeks and have just been running mostly easy runs. I have not been doing many workouts and I have been missing a run every fews so I have not been as consistent with my training as I would like. Today I wanted to get back on track and start off with a tempo workout to kind of see where I am at and then hopefully build from there.
I felt sluggish starting but woke up after a little bit and felt better. I started the tempo after a 3 mile warmup and wanted to run controlled not pushing too hard. I thought I should be able to run 6:50 pace comfortably so that is what I set for the goal. Here are the splits for the 4 miles:
1st - 6:51
2nd - 6:50
3rd - 6:43
4th - 6:36
I felt controlled most of the way and only thought I was pushing it on the last mile. Was mostly satisfied with the run but disappointed that I haven't made any progress this summer. This is basically where I was at in the spring. This is not suprising though since my running this summer has not been very consistent.
58:59 (7:22 avg)
PM: Ran with my daughter.
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