AM - 13 miles. Warmed up 2 miles, 10 mile tempo run in 54:29 (5:27/mi avg), 1 mile cooldown w/ Andrea. Back to the old "home" tempo loop - haven't done any workouts there since around Memorial Day! The goal was ~55 minutes and stay very relaxed. This is slower than I did a lot of tempos in the spring, but that was my plan. CIM is almost 4 months away - I don't need to be running at goal marathon pace right now. Cranking out 5:15 pace runs looks good on paper, but I'm not sure it would really be of any benefit at this point. In fact it would probably be counter-productive. As I was telling some of the guys on the last long run, I want to come into the TOU Marathon feeling like my fitness is at about 85% - in good aerobic shape, but also leaving plenty of room for improvement between TOU and CIM. I don't want to feel "peaked" in September and then just be hanging on the rest of the year. Hopefully a little patience now will go a long way.
Splits - 5:38, 5:37, 5:29, 5:24, 5:25, 5:22, 5:19, 5:23, 5:25, 5:26. Miles 6 & 7 got a little quicker, so rather than keep dropping it down and hammering 5:05s to finish it out, I backed off. It actually felt really good to make the end of the run easier. Drove up to work to do another major food/clothes re-stocking, and had the pleasure of heckling James on Foothill. Great morning! :-) PM - 6.5 miles and then went to Andrea's bike race and took some pics. She is the queen of the SLC Corporate Olympics! Wheeler Farm is such a weird place - chickens everywhere! 
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