Met at Liberty park today. Usually that means tempo or 800s or fartlek type stuff, so I wasn't too excited to come. But I knew it was an important workout. We did a lap warmup, then we went to the start. We did a 2 mile tempo. I was, at first, supposed to hit 6:45 pace, but then not even a quarter mile into it Bill yelled back to me to do 6:30 pace with Caden, Dakota and Kiley. Great. So the first mile felt great! I thought I was doing pretty well. But we were a few seconds slow, so we sped it up on the 2nd mile. Kiley fell back, and so it was just me, Caden and Dakota. I was on the very edge, so going slightly faster than both of them, which didn't help me one bit. I started to fall of with a little over a half mile left, but I tried to keep up with them. I finished 6 seconds behind them, but my time was 12:47, 13 seconds faster than 6:30 pace, more like 6:24 pace. Now that I think about it that was pretty good considering that some of my races for the 3200 were right around there. :) Then we ran over to the start again, this time doing that same thing but a bit faster. Or a lot. 20 seconds faster. Half mile into it I quit on myself and fell off of Dakota and Caden. I was really considering stopping at the mile mark, but I figured if I had worked this hard, I could finish another mile. So I kept going, picking it up. I started passing Ethan, who fell off of that front group, but I told him to come with me because it would be easier on both of us. He came with, and it helped me keep going, but then of course he outkicked me at the very end. Oh well. I got 13:05ish. So still right around 6:30 pace. I feel like today was a good workout. Then we did 2 laps to get to 10. It felt so short, but maybe that's because we broke the 10 miles up into small parts, and 4 of it was tempo, and we hadn't done 4 right before it, like yesterday. :) | 