Weekly Obligations (among others): Run kids...check, Ward Party......check, Jury Duty......check, weekly temp run....check, CHECK, CHECK!!!! I am not sure if there are many happier feelings then knowing I am done with my tempo run for the week. I think it's official that I mentally kill myself when it comes to tempo runs because they are hard for me!! But BOY is it nice to have them over. Our plan for this morning (according to our handy dandy schedule prepared by Tyler, I swear the guy should go into coaching as a profession) was to do a mile warm up, 5 tempo miles at 7:37pace, and a mile cool down. We decided to do the "Seventh Heaven" route (name courtesy of Teena!) so it was a 3.5 out and back. The weather was perfect this morning and everything went as planned. We stopped at about 6.4 for a quick water break and ran out the end. Our splits were as follows: 9:17 (nice easy warm up, we were really milking up the time here trying to brace ourselves), 7:37, 7:29, 7:28, 7:29, 7:30, 7:51 (cool down mile, its amazing how you feel like you are trudging if you slow down even just a bit after tempo'ing), 7:14(last .1 mile. Hey, I had to add it :). Avg: 7:48. WAHOO, I am done with Tempo. Now it's off to the showers to get ready for work. Have a great day everyone ;)
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