Note to self...never expect great results from a workout on Christmas Day.
The plan was to run a tempo run from my house to my sister in laws house in Ames Lake where we were having Christmas Lunch/Dinner.
The plan was also to do an 8-mile tempo with the first 5 at 5:40-5:45, the next 2 at 5:20 and the last one at 5:05.
The first five were easy. A couple of them were in the low 5:30s which wasn't ideal. Mile 6 was in 5:20 but it was a hard 5:20. Mile 7 was in 5:25. I knew pretty early that a 5:05 final mile wasn't even close to possible. By the end of Mile 7, I just decided to forgo the final fast mile and call it a day. Ran the rest of the way as a cool down.
Beautiful day for a run. I was just too full of food and too tired to make anything special happen. | 