Wednesday temp run on Highland Glen loop. I realized that as I was walking down to the corner that I hadn't scheduled the workout on my Garmin. I was, however, able to find an earlier tempo workout and selected "Do Workout". As I was still half asleep it looked to me like the workout started as the lower set of numbers was changing, so I started off on the two miles of warmup. It was a little cool this morning and I was glad I was wearing long sleeves and pants. When I just about to the two mile mark I glanced down at my watch and it showed two miles on the distance. Thinking that I was supposed to start the tempo section, I immediately pushed the pace up to my threshold range. As I was rounding the pond, it dawned on me that my watch never should have showed two miles on the distance. On workouts like that it counts down from two miles so it should have shown three or close to zero. I should have pushed the start button at the beginning of the workout. Knowing what threshold pace feels like, I just kept running. I may have pushed it a little harder than normal for a tempo run because I didn't know where my heartrate was for sure. Heading up the hill out of the park, I could feel my legs getting heavy and I was breathing fairly hard. I eased up a bit as the hill levels out to a one percent uphill grade, but kept a fairly steady effort. I felt like it was about 10K race pace, but unfortunately I didn't know how fast I was going. Ran hard along the trail and then jogged the last quarter mile to cool down. A good workout over all. | 