Plan was to do hilly 10 mile route.  Used to do this route  a lot in earlier days, but got frightened of it when my IT band blew up on it. Challenging route with plenty of beefy hills.  Had no Garmin so I had to guess on distance and turned around where I thought 5 mile mark was.  When I got home I adjusted distance because thought this was more in line with actual pace.  Doesn't really matter though because this was about getting out on a beautiful fall day, working hard and enjoying the spectacular views of the changing colors on the rolling hills...oh, and as always, negative splitting. :)

nasty, windy, rainy night, didn't keep me from enjoying this easier pace run.  Wind at my back on return trip, helped the mood.

I REALLY do want to finish that race report.  Hopefully tonight.

After months of steady easier pace runs, I'm enjoying burning off the energy with these tempo runs.  While I am pushing the pace on these, I am not red-lining. Just for the fun of it.