Well, I slept in this morning as I couldn't fall asleep for a while last night. So, I ran in the evening finishing 10.1 miles in 1:07:57. During the middle of the run I ran 4 x 800 with a 400 recovery at about 8:00 pace. My splits for the 800's were 2:37 (1:21, 1:16), 2:31 (1:18, 1:13), 2:31, 2:31 (1:15, 1:16). The first two repeats were on a slight downhill grade on the Provo river trail, and the last two were run as I was coming back on a slight uphill grade. For the most part I was pushing the pace less during the first 400 of each repeat, but during the second 400 I would try to relax more so that even though I was pushing the pace harder, the effort was about the same. It didn't work as well as I had planned, as I ended up just pushing too hard on the first two repeats, and during the last repeat I actually slowed down during the second 400.
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