Sasha and I ran a warm-up followed by a 10 mile tempo. The goal was to start out at just under 6:00 pace, and to then slowly pick up the pace throughout the tempo until we were going pretty fast by the end of it. We started off a little faster than I was expecting, hitting the first mile in under 5:50, but everything else went according to plan. We slowly picked up the pace throughout until we we in the low 5:30's near the end of the tempo. I will admit that the pace felt harder than it should have, but I think that it is understandable since I ran a marathon 2 weeks ago, and I feel like I am still recovering to a certain degree. I finished the tempo with a total time of 56:34. Here are my splits: mile splits - 5:48, 5:48, 5:46, 5:43, 5:43, 5:40, 5:35, 5:32, 5:32, 5:27. 2.5 mile splits - 14:30, 14:18, 14:03, 13:43. I actually ran the last half mile in 2:41, and that felt way harder than it should have. Sasha stayed with me until about 9 miles in. He maintained contact to a certain degree until about 9.5 miles, at which point I decided to push the pace a little harder to the end, and he fell back. Sasha finished about 11 or 12 seconds back.
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