Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Tempo Run

Today was my tempo run.  I started at Sherman Beach.  I did a one mile warm up.  Then I did 4 miles at tempo pace with a two minute rest between.  There was an emergency port a pottie stop partway through. 

I'm not sure what my goal is for the half marathon.  I would like to run a 2 hour half.  This would require average pace of 9:14.  This is what I was trying to hit for my tempo miles.  I am not very good at hitting my pace.  My warm up was 10:28 which was good.  Then my next for miles were 8:37, 8:45, 8:44, 8:43.  This was a little fast but at least I was consistent.  For the cool down I ran 1.2 miles and threw some strides in.  I felt good afterward but felt like I did a workout.

I got started after five.  When I was on my cool down I realized that it was getting dark.  I made it to the car before twilight.  I won't have that problem next week when we have daylight savings time.

Jim did not run.  He was at a friends helping him bottle wine.  There are priorities.

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