Today was an easy run for Tom, Will, and Nathan but it was more of a tempo run for me. We ran an extended Lake View course of 6.2 miles instead of 5.2. I had our time at 48:48, which is about 7:52/mi. It was encouraging to be able to average a sub-8:00 minute pace again, especially with how slowly I ran Saturday, and considering that the trail portion of this run was through several inches of fresh powder. If I ran this pace at the Painter's half marathon Saturday I'd finish around 1:43. I think that may be possible. If I factor in warmer weather in St. George and the typical race day performance boost, perhaps I could even go sub 1:40. I ran 1:36 last year, but given the recent setbacks in my training I don't really dare hope to match that this year. It will be fun, or at least interesting, to find out how much is in there that I can pull out.
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