Didn't run yesterday. While Chuck was supervising the spring play at his school, I took my boys (plus my nephew) to see Pirates of Penzance at my school. It was surprisingly good. Eli liked the pirate ship. He was a little squirmy, but still behaved himself. I'm not sure how much of it Caleb and Spence understood of the dialogue, but they seemed to enjoy the play. Unfortunately, I will never know how it ends because we left at intermission so everyone could get to bed on time (including me). Today's run was hard. 1 mile warm up (9:16), 8 miles tempo, 1.25 miles cool down (9:16). My splits on the tempo part were: 7:54, 7:50, 7:51, 7:55, 8:05, 8:08, 8:12, 8:22. 8 minute pace is just not mine for the taking just yet. I almost quit after 5.5 miles. Instead I stopped and stretched for a minute while giving myself a pep talk. I almost quit again after 7 miles, but I persevered. The last 1.5 miles of the fast part were into the wind (thus my near throwing in the towel). It was steady around 15 mph, so I don't feel so bad for the dramatic slow down. Well, I feel kinda bad.
This is my longest tempo run. I do another 10 on Sunday, then my longest run is next weekend. Supposed to be 12, but I am thinking of just going the 13.1 miles just to reassure myself that I'm good for the distance.
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