Today I ran my first tempo run since the St. George Marathon, with the goal to see how things felt and keep the pace around 6:00/mile. Sasha and I ran a little under 3.5 miles for our warm-up, running 2 miles with Benjamin, and then over to the start of the 5 mile tempo. The tempo went as follows: 5:48, 5:48, 5:40, 5:44, 5:32 (total time of 28:32). We started off a little bit too quick, as I have gotten used to running slow a lot over the last few weeks and my sense of pace is gone, after which we slowed down. After that the pace per quarter was anything but consistent ranging from 1:22-1:29 per quarter until the very end when I ran a 1:16 last quarter, running the last 100 in about 16 seconds. The whole tempo felt weird. I felt like I was working harder than I should normally work, but the pace didn't really feel any harder at 1:22/quarter pace than it did at 1:27/quarter. Any slower than that and I felt like I was crawling. I am assuming that this all comes from just having stale legs, and everything will be back to normal here in a couple weeks when I really get going in my training again. Total time for 12 miles was 1:24:49.
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