I ran with Sasha this afternoon. We did a warm-up followed by a 10 mile tempo at just under 6:00 pace, running the 5 mile tempo twice. We started off a little fast, hitting the first mile in 5:44. We then slowed it down, and ran 5:55, 5:55, 5:51 over the next three miles. Sasha then asked if we could slow down just a little bit, and I slowed it down too much, going through the next mile in 6:05 (29:30 through 5 miles). I then picked it back up a bit to make up the lost time, and we ran the next 4 miles in 5:53, 5:53, 5:56, 5:52. Sasha was hurting, probably due to running quarters yesterday, so I was trying to motivate him to keep up pace so that we could at least hit the second half in the same time as the first. We only needed a 5:56 over the last mile in order to make that goal, and we were slightly faster than that pace with 400 left. I then picked it up to try and pull Sasha a bit faster, and we finished the last mile in 4:48 to finish the last 5 miles in 29:22 (58:52 total for 10 miles). We then did a cool down to finish. My cool down was a little longer because we met a guy named Scott on the trail and I ran with him for a little ways before running home. I finished my run with a total time of 1:47:36 for 15.85 miles.
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