My two mile warm up felt fine, even kind of quick. But, my tempo run started so slow. Here are the splits.
8:36--I felt so slow and felt that I couldn't go any faster. I told myself it was okay. During recent training, I had some miles under my pace range (8:00 to 8:30). So I told myself it was probably normal to have some miles over the range.
However, I got slower.
almost 9:00--I wanted to turn off my watch. But, somehow I talked myself into keeping my feet moving.
I felt tight in my shoulders. I tried to relax and forget about my watch. And it worked.
8:10 ish--My quarters were closer to two minutes.
8:06 ish
I don't remember what my last split was and I don't want to figure it out. (I want to go to bed.) Total time for the five mile tempo run was 42:12. I was very pleased that I kept with it and that I was able to relax and run normal. | 