11.75 miles - 1.5 warmup, 8.5 tempo, 1.75 cool down. Adam was nice enough to join me for the majority of the tempo. It was nice to have some company on this tougher run for sure. Overall, I felt good on this tempo run. However, I went through some ups and downs during the run. The third mile of the tempo was actually our fastest even though it had the most uphill. I pushed it up the hill and felt good about it, but then I felt the worst during mile 4. That mile was mostly flat with a little uphill, but I did not feel great during it. My left quad felt a little odd for about a mile. Thankfully, around mile 5 I loosened back up and felt really smooth. I was only planning on doing 8 miles when I awoke, but decided to go an extra .5 because I was feeling good enough at the end. During the run I mentioned to Adam that 4 months ago I never would have believed anyone if they told me that I could do this workout successfully. Needless to say, I am stoked that I did it! 1 | 8:20.9 | 1.00 | 8:21 | 2 | 4:09.9 | 0.50 | 8:20 | 3 | 6:51.1 | 1.00 | 6:51 | 4 | 6:52.2 | 1.00 | 6:52 | 5 | 6:46.0 | 1.00 | 6:46 | 6 | 6:50.2 | 1.00 | 6:50 | 7 | 6:51.3 | 1.00 | 6:51 | 8 | 6:49.2 | 1.00 | 6:49 | 9 | 6:49.2 | 1.00 | 6:49 | 10 | 6:46.7 | 1.00 | 6:47 | 11 | 3:20.8 | 0.50 | 6:44 | 12 | 8:05.5 | 1.00 | 8:05 | 13 | 5:58.5 | 0.75 | 7:57 |
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