Tempo run - 2 miles easy, 4 miles tempo, 0.60 miles easy
Outside temp - 36°F, clear skies
Just for fun I actually put hot chocolate in my water bottle for my run this morning. It was lukewarm chocolate by midway through the run and cool chocolate by the end of the run. I don't think it really made a difference in my performance, but it was kind of silly and fun. I don't think, however, that I'll do it again. I didn't drink all of it. I dumped out what was left when I got home.
I decided to do a tempo run with a 2 mile warm up, which is hard to do on this particular route because the first 3 miles are up hill, so the first mile of the tempo portion is pretty hard. Once I got going in the tempo portion I gave it a pretty good effort and probably ran as fast as I could maintain over the distance.
Incidentally, the old mattress with the political signs stuck in it was gone. The mattress had been there for a couple of days. I guess the signs finally brought enough attention to it that someone got rid of it.
Since this was a tempo run, I'll include my splits.
1 - 11:00
2 - 11:15
3 - 9:48
4 - 8:53
5 - 8:08
6 - 7:53
0.60 - 10:24 | 