First test

Today was the first real test. And in hind sight shouldn't have been all that hard when looking at the bigger picture. Nick Payne and Jason Minnick joined me for the workout. We started with about 5 miles at an easy pace. The first few miles of the workout were up and down as we struggled to maintain a consistent tempo. This was an out and back 5 miler with a 2 miles up and three downhill out and the opposite back. Jason and I went through the first half like this 5:29/5:44/5:50/5:50/5:41. Not too bad we had hoped for 5:45-6 min pace. The 6th mile felt too fast and it was 5:36. We agreed to slow down until we hit the final downhill two miles. 7-8 were reached easily in 42/37. I was feeling better but not like I wanted to pick it up. 9-10 were faster yet 36 and 32 for a total of ten miles in 56:37. Not a bad start. I really recovered well so I may run another 5 this pm to get a nice day of close to 25 miles. We will see.