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Downtown tempo on race course

August 31, 2011 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 62, sunny, calm

Comments:
Feeling crappy at start of downtown run, tired and tummy/br problems but wanted to get first 3 mile tempo in on race course. Weather was motivating, glorious sunrise sky and water/boats looked fab. Warm up mile felt good, walked and stretch a bit before starting on bike path. Felt like pace was not crazy but hard, was cause mile 1 was 8:19 - did have to navigate over fallen tree so that cost like 4 sec. Mile 2 covered the course which was good to remember markers and tried to keep pace hard, time was 8:14 so better but really felt like I was working. Final mile felt the same effort but did it in 7:56 was great time. Finally neg split!!! Definitely a very hard tempo but overall time was 24:31 which was my good 5k time a year or 2 ago. Not bad for an early morning training run by myself on no sleep! Walked and stretched before cool down mile and felt okay.