I ran a few easy miles with Larry and Jolene in the morning. It's good to see Jolene out running again.
At lunchtime I ran with Tom and Cory. Tom wanted to do a tempo run of 3.25 miles at 7:00/mi. We ran 0.93 miles over to the other side of the freeway to warm up. Shortly we got off the trail and onto pavement we start the tempo run. My mile splits were 6:59, 6:58, and 6:58, with a 6:46 pace for the last 1/4 mile. We then cooled down running back across the freeway.
The first mile wasn't too bad, but then I had to start working. It got progressively harder to the end. Tom ran strong. He was the pace setter the whole way and finished a little ahead of me. Cory ran the first mile with us then backed off the pace. I know Cory is a little discouraged that he can't hang with us, but Tom and I think he is doing great. While we've been running 25-35 miles a week all winter, he's been laying off trying to get his foot healed (which is still hurting him). I don't think he's run a dozen times since the St. George marathon. I ran at least 4 of those runs with him and I was impressed with how strong he ran all of them. He just needs to give himself some time and build up his training base.
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