Since I've been gone Ryan has been cheating on me with Scott Keate and doing his long Saturday runs with Scott's group. So this morning he asked if I wanted to join them, I said sure. Ran down to the corner of Timpanogas Highway and Traverse Mountain (~2 miles) where Ryan picked me up and we drove to the mouth of Provo Canyon, met Scott and his group, there were 8 of us all with at least sub 3:00 goal in mind for St. George next week. Ran pretty much together up the canyon almost to Vivian park stopped and turned around. Scott asked if we were up for a 3 mile Tempo run at Marathon pace, 3 of us agreed, I asked what Marathon pace meant he said about 5:50 so I thought that sounded OK. We ran slow for 1/2 a mile to get to 7 and then took off, I looked down. 5:20 I said, uh! we're going a bit fast, Ryan and Scott laughed and said ya we kind of are, I backed off, they didn't. I went 5:34, 5:35, 5:43 for my tempo run, Ryan and Scott gained about 10 seconds per mile on me. so much for 5:50 pace. Liars. 13 miles in 1:27:20 6:42 avg pace.
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