Notes
Goal was 20 miles with 12 in the middle at MP. It was a frigid morning that was brutal when going into the wind. First half of the MP tempo felt fine, giving back a couple of seconds here and there but overall where I wanted to be. Making the turn at Cleveland Circle onto Beacon was a disaster. Absolutely brutal, both in terms of being held up in the wind as well as the wind chill. I just couldn't fight through it enough to come close to maintaining pace and the uphill through the top of BC didn't help either The next 3 miles after that had moments of protection from the wind but just couldn't recover enough to get back to MP. Besides the BC mile, I kept within 10 seconds of MP but felt like a bit of a loss not being able to maintain.
Pretty tired by the end after a bit of the recovery miles at the end also faced the same stiff headwind. I guess I need to accept that part of the tempo was also aided by a tailwind that I didn't even realize I had at the time.