Ran with Jenny this morning on her tempo run. We warmed up with 1 mile at an easy pace then started the tempo portion. I was going to be the pacer and the drink carrier. Her goal was 6 miles at 8:18 pace. First mile was good and the second mile seemed pretty good, too. We were ahead of pace. I started noticing some problems about 3 and a half miles into the tempo portion. I turned off my music so I could tune in better to how she was doing. We kept on going, I could tell she was struggling more on the second to last mile and at one point I thought we weren't going to make the goal pace but she dug deep and pulled it off. Finally, the last mile. She was working hard but was determined to make it on pace. The last 0.25 mile of the last mile she surged ahead a bit and came in well below pace. Ended up averaging just under 8:11 pace for the 6 miles which was great. Ran with Jenny on the cool down then ran ahead a little more for an extra mile. Weather was a bit nicer today, so that helped but we sure could use some of that nice fall weather a lot of people are getting now. I'm sure we'll get ours soon. After the run, did my Inflict workout that I had done on Tuesday, so that is done with for the week. Just have an easy run tomorrow :)
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