When I was getting ready to head out, I found that my garmin was running out of battery. I frantically searched for my charger, but couldn't find it (I think it's at school). I ALMOST decided to scrap the tempo part of my run, but I knew that if I didn't do 6 miles tempo, I would be mad at myself. So I charged on! Because I run all my routes a lot, I have all the mile splits memorized (for the most part), so I decided to run 4 miles into my usual tempo/long run route and then turn around. Splits are approximate and I couldn't quite hang on to 8 minute pace, but I think mile 3 and 4 were 10-15 seconds long (the mile split is along a string of light posts that are about 10-15 seconds apart, and I couldn't remember which one was the point, so I went one past the one I thought it was in case I was wrong). Splits were 7:45, 7:59, 8:24, 7:54, 8:15, 8:07. Then I ran one mile home. I do not have the endurance that I had last year, so I'm not looking for a PR in the 1/2 I'm doing (4 weeks left, I think), but I am looking for a respectable time. I feel confident that if I had one more month to work on it, I could probably PR, but alas, I did not get my butt in gear as far as building a good solid running base early enough. And there's no way I'm doing a 1/2 in late May.
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