I ran alone this morning. The weather was in the low 30's and the roads were dry. I ran the extended Orem course. This course is along well lit streets and breaks nicely into 1/2 mile segments every 4 blocks. It is level-ish, with gradual downhills when running away from the mountains (S and W) and (logically) gradual uphills when running towards the mountains (N and E). I mention the grade only to try to explain the variance in my pace for this moderate-effort tempo run. Although my mind didn't really notice the uphills and downhills, my body must have. While I tried to maintain the same effort throughout the run, and feel I did pretty well, the average paces for each 1/2 mile were as follows: 7:47(S), 7:39(S), 7:57(E), 7:36(S), 8:12(E), 8:25(N), 8:05(N), 7:47(N), 7:23(W), 7:27 (W), 7:14(N w/kick). Overall average for the 5.5 miles was 7:47/mi. I also ran a little over a mile total for warmup and cooldown. | 