Notes
Hellyer Park (from the bridge out to the basketball courts / bathrooms.
This was supposed to be an 'easy' 10 miles but I got suckered into a fast pace. I start my run doing 8min/mile and slowly catch up to this kid. When I get about 5 feet behind him he starts picking it up. Now, this kid didn't look very athletic so I thought I'd have some fun with him. I picked it up to the point where I just stayed about 10 feet behind off his right shoulder. He kept picking up the pace but I stuck to him. I figured he'd give up on any one of the rolling hills we were hitting but he held on for about 4 miles before he turned around. Mile 1 - 8:09, Mile 2 - 7:53, Mile 3 - 7:41, Mile 4 - 7:29. He just kept going faster! It was actually pretty fun. When he turned around I gave him props and then went one more mile - Mile 5 - 7:04.
At that point, I thought that I may as well make it a kinda tempo run so I jogged another .8 miles to the water fountain and had a drink then turned it around:
Mile 1 - 6:53, Mile 2 - 6:49, Mile 3 - 6:49, Mile 4 - 6:39, Mile 5 - 6:26.
Legs never felt heavy or tired. Pretty good run considering it was fairly hot outside.