5:30 am. Tried to come up with every excuse not do to my 6 mile tempo run this morning. "I had to shovel snow, My legs are sore, My stomach is flip floppy, What if I decide to run a 5K in -1 degree weather tomorrow? But when I finally got to the gym I told myself that I could just warm up slow and see how things were after 2 miles. Even if I only did a 4 mile Tempo that would be OK. So started out at 7:30 pace, 2 mile warm up in 15:00, Bumped it up to tempo goal pace 5:50/mile. That went OK so I kept bumping it up every mile, ran the whole 6 miles and ended up not dieing. So now I'm 2 for 2, survived the terible blizzard of 2010 last night, and survived yet another tempo run. Yea me. Splits went like this. Mile 1- 5:52 Mile 2- 5:49 Mile 3- 5:46 Mile 4- 5:42 Cheated and put the treadmill at -1% for mile 4 and 5 Mile 5- 5:39 Mile 6- 5:27
6 Mile total 34:17 5:42 avg pace.
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