Met with Smooth, Rachelle, RAD, and Chad, and 2 others that were with Smooth at Willow Park this morning. I got there 40 minutes too early so I just ran up to the Jr. High school and ran laps around the track while I waited. I got 3 miles in went back to my car and still had 15 minutes left so I started running again but then Chad pulled up so I turned around and waited with him. Very nice morning, chilly but nice. I was glad I had my free pair of gloves that I got in my Big Cottonwood Marathon bag with me or my hands would have froze. Rachelle, Rachel, Chad and I started out together, ran out to the lake, over the bridge, through the spooky forest and then Chad started running ahead, I was torn. I liked running slow with the Rachelles but it seemed more manly to go off and run fast with Chad. I wasn't in a real manly mood but I said thanks for inviting me to the Rachelles and took off to catch Chad, we started a pretty good little marathon pace tempo run right at 6:20 pace, it felt fine but all of a sudden my heart went crazy and wouldn't stop beating. I had to stop and let it slow down and told Chad to go ahead. After my heart calmed down I continued my tempo run and caught Chad with about 1 mile to the end. He was working me hard, we ended up running the last .5 at about 5:45 pace. I think. Nice run, I had fun, thanks everyone.
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