Notes
Midnight Madness 10k with Pollux, I last did this race 12 years ago. My plan was just to pace and run with Pollux, hoping that would just be about tempo. Pollux wasn't really sure of his fitness though so our goal pace was unknown.
We got out fast of course but settled down to be in the upper 5:40's. This seemed like a reasonable pace and we continued with that for a bit. Mile 3 brought us back into the crowds and a pace that picked up slightly, but mile 4 returned to our previous pace.
I'm not sure if we would have kept our pace in a different scenario, but we got excited about catching people ahead of us and ran the 5th mile in under 5:40. Then this just became a progressive run as we kept ratcheting up the pace for a <5:30 6th mile and an all-out sprint.
So this was about tempo for 4 miles turned into a progressive run. I'm sure we could have ran faster with even splits but nice time wasn't the goal today (for me at least).