I did the Hudson River trail again today because I wanted to try and do some sort of tempo run to evaluate my fitness. Plus I'm running a 5K race in Wyoming in my wifes hometown next week which 1 year ago I told her I would win it this year. It will actually be the first 5K I have ever raced. Strange huh? Well I have no idea what my 5K speed is, truthfully I have no idea what any pace is at this point. So I wanted to run a short 2 mile tempo just to see what I could do. Plan was to just try and go under 12:00 for the 2 miles, I was kind of thinking 5:45 pace in the back of my head. So I ran down to the trail, ran out to the 5 mile point at 7:05 average pace, turned around got a drink of water, ran 1 mile in 7:30 to try and cool down. Then I hit the gas, found 5:45 and tried to hang on, did the first 1/4 in 85 which was good, probably to good, I knew at that point I wasn't going to be able to hold it, next 1/4 in 87 then I just lost it, all but gave up and slowed way down. Despite feeling sorry for myself for not being able to keep the pace I decided I might as well still get a workout out of it. So I found 6:20 pace and just kind of stayed there for a while but slowly over the 2 kept getting slower and slower. 2 mile tempo in 12:45 6:22 avg. Stopped, got a drink and ran the last 2 miles back to the hotel slow feeling bad for myself. It was awfully humid which I'm sure had something to do with it, but truth is I'm just not in the shape I wish I was, but hey, really what can I expect after 12 weeks off. I guess I wont be winning the 5K next week. 10 miles in 1:10:55 7:05 avg.
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