AM: Did a warmup run with Kim just over 3 miles before attempting my planned 3.5 mile tempo run at 10K pace (6:00-6:20). After the warmup Kim went on her way and I did some strides to try and wake my legs up and coax them to do some faster running. As usual the legs were rebelling a bit and wanted to do a few more miles warmup first, but I didn't have time for an 8 mile warmup so after a bit of mild stretching it was off to the races. Since I have so much trouble doing fast workouts in the early morning I tried to make things easier by running on a slightly downhill route with a tailwind on the 1st mile. This was a good-news/bad-news run. The good news: I averaged 6:08. The bad news: I got the familiar nausea, upset stomach, need-to-find-a-bush-quick feeling hitting me during mile 3 so I had to cut the run short and only do 3 miles instead of the planned 3.5 :( I've taken Tums a few times before harder runs and it seems to help with the stomach issues but today I forgot to do that. But I do feel better after reading Terry's blog and seeing that I averaged a quicker pace on my 3 miles that he did on his run :) However I imagine Terry wasn't running with a tailwind and slight downhill. Splits were 6:06, 6:10, 6:10. Someday I'll wise up and learn to run the 1st mile of a tempo a little easy instead of always making it the fastest mile of them all. However I did have most of the tailwind on this mile so the effort was probably pretty even for all 3. PM (late AM start actually): Ran the Lakeview out-and-back 5.1 mile route solo. Ran "naked" today - i.e no garmin or watch of any kind - so I don't know or care about the pace. It was muggy but also cloudy so the temps didn't feel too bad.
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