Good run today. I ran to Sasha's house and we ran our normal route out to the lake and then back to my house. After a ~2.5 mile warm up we did a short 2 mile tempo. I wasn't feeling up to a longer tempo otherwise we would have gone farther. The plan was to go out in about 5:30 pace and to hold that, however Sasha went through the first quarter in 1:23 and it felt too slow. I would have sworn that we were going 5:40 pace or maybe even slower. So, I sped things up a bit, and by my watch we went through the mile in 5:22-5:23 and the second mile in 5:15-5:16 for a total time of 10:38 (Sasha had us at 5:24,5:15 for a 10:39). Sasha could tell that I was kind of edgy because I was coming up to take my turn at the front a little early every time and he commented that the pace might even have been a little slow for me. This is a good thing for me because it means that my top speed is coming back even though I have done limited speed work. After this we ran to the end of the trail, and on the way back Sasha asked if I wanted to run an 800 at about 5:00 pace. It sounded good to me, so at about my 8 mile mark we ran an 800 starting off with a 1:17 first quarter and then a 1:15 second quarter to finish with a 2:32. We had a cold wind blowing into our faces the entire time we ran the 800 so if we take that into account then the 800 would be a couple seconds faster. We then finished running to my house for a total time of 1:29:12.
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