In the morning I ran the normal Orem 400 E course with Kevin. The weather phone said it was 21 degrees and I dressed well for that temperature. I was fine while we headed south. As soon as we turned back north, however, we realized that we had been running with a tailwind which was now a very cold headwind. My face got pretty cold (numb) but the rest of me was okay. We took a few detours this morning. First we took a minor detour at 400 S when we headed west to go over to Main St. to go back north. We both were thinking we were on 400 N. 400 S does not intersect with Main St. When we saw State St. approaching we turned back and went north on 400 E as usual. At 800 N, we did go west to Main St. and stopped at Gold's Gym so Kevin could use their bathroom. There sure seemed to be a lot of people there on the treadmills, etc. We then crossed over 800 N and made our way around the construction to get onto Main St. and head home. We ended up doing about 6.7 miles @ 8:23/mi. The first mile was @ 8:37/mi and the last mile was @ 7:45/mi. At lunchtime I ran Lake View with Cory and Nathan. It was sunny and cold, around 31 degrees I think. The pace for the first mile was around 9:00/mi. We then conciously picked up the pace. The average paces for the next 4 miles were 7:23, 7:33, 6:50 (we pushed it hard), and 7:30. We averaged 7:38/mi overall. Tom would have probably made me run a 7:00 pace for most of those miles, but it just wasn't in me today...and Tom wasn't there.
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