Notes
initial plan was for this to be a tempo run at 8:00 pace or less but after 1st 1/2 mile and legs feeling a little heavy (or so I thought) and remembering that I want to run a fairly fast 22 miler on Saturday, I decided to not run this one fast. My thought was if I was around the 8:30 pace I would be thrilled.
But I had picked up the pace for the 2nd half of the 1st mile and my legs were very comfortable running in the low 8's. I didnt really push hard until the last mile. Was surprised I was running in the 8:00-8:15 and it felt fairly comfortable. Then I decided it would be nice to finish the last 3 or 4 miles a little faster so I could average 8:15. Even the sub 8:00's felt fairly comfortable...a little rushed but I felt good. The last mile was definitely pushed much harder.
I think the 10 on Monday and only running 5 yesterday really helped.
I wasn't going to call this a tempo run until the last 4 miles were all sub 8's and averaged 7:49.