Marathon pace tempo plus some strides today. It was raining when I started, but stopped after about 30 min. or so. The wind, however, bothered me the entire run, steady at 16-20 mph. I did 15min. warmup, 5.04mi in 40:00 (7:56 pace), then about 2mi. cool down. Also did 4x100m strides on the track before turning to run home. Total time 1:12:59, not counting strides. I felt good, although tempo pace was a bit too fast, perhaps. Garmin couldn't get a signal for the longest time, so I started tempo by feel, and after about 2mi. it locked in, and I saw 7:55 average, so I kind of went with it. When I was running into the wind, I just tried to keep the same effort, rather than pace, but I think my breathing was affected anyway. | 