Again another day of beautiful January weather. Low 50’s around 1pm. Packed running shorts and shirt for a run from the office at lunch. Decided to do a tempo run. It was great. Had negative splits, and surprised myself at the pace I was able to put out. First mile was supposed to be a warmup, but ended up pretty quick at 9:13/mile, second mile clocked in at 8:43, third mile was 8:20 and fourth mile was 7:45. Finished with a cool down of .5 miles at 8:50/mile pace. Funny thing was that the cool down was faster than my normal training pace, but felt like I was going sooooo slow. Couldn’t believe it. Made for a very refreshed feeling for the afternoon.
Refueled with some great split pea soup from the Moosewood cookbook I received at Christmas. Good stuff.
Oh and did yoga again last night. The tightness is definitely less, but still there. I feel like I am nowhere near looking like the instructor in the video.