Met up with Michelle and Ali for an hour of warm up before the scheduled tempo run. We had planned on running 2x5 mile tempo runs at or below marathon pace. I found out late that night that I needed to change my schedule so that Kellie could run with her friends. So I had to be home early so that she could go. So our 2x5 mile tempo turned in to a 4 mile tempo at a faster pace than marathon. We met up back at the church to meet the other runners, we picked up a new kid Travis, he ran with us and turned out to be a very nice kid. I had actually met him after the St. George Marathon and was glad that he came out. We ran out to Osborne's and started our tempo from there. splits - 6:47, 6:13, 6:05, 5:52 ave pace 6:13 The first mile is up hill, there is some down hill in the second and the rest is fairly flat. Typically there is a lot of wind on this stretch but it was not to bad today. Travis held strong with us through mile 3, Michelle stayed close and was running great considering she was feeling sick before we even started, plus she had over 70 miles on her legs for the week. I wanted to make sure that we finished the last mile under 6:00, I didin't bring my watch so I was going off of feel, Michelle was doing a great job yelling out the split's and distance to me. We finished the tempo and I had to leave in a hurry and get home so that Kellie could hit the pavement. I wanted to run more and really wanted to run another tempo but it will have to wait for another day.
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