Today I was going to try to run a tempo run. Now there were two factor's that affected this run and both were not positive. First, Pocatello had a wind advisory for last night and through sometime today. I also still had a little bit of stomach issues going. I started the tempo after two warm-up miles, and the wind just beat me up that the first few miles were awful, and my stomach was aching a little where I felt I needed to use the bathroom. Any way the first several miles were (6:27, 6:23, 6:26, 6:24) awful times for a tempo. My stomach started hurting and the wind was blowing in my face and it was 24 degrees, but I thought to myself how bad do you want to become at better runner, because I was about to slow down and just float the last three miles. But I dug down deep and wanted to at least get better than the last few miles even though the wind felt like it was picking up and my stomach was now not feeling very good and I had to brown code. My last three miles were (6:17, 5:58, 6:18) not great but better than the first few. I was really glad to see my house, especially the bathroom. You can figure out those details yourself. |