Thursday night tempo

I just got back from my second to last tempo run before the Ottawa half marathon. I was a bit ambitious and tried to hold a 3:55 min/k pace. I started way too fast, Veep's real-time pace function spooked me and I laid it all out there in the first kilometre. The rest of the run I was just trying to keep on target. I finished my 5K in 19:41 with splits of 3:46, 3:56, 3:57, 3:58 and 4:02. My average split was 3:57. After reflecting on my times I wish the splits were in reverse order, I would have been happy with that. The run did mark the first occasion where I got to run some new gear. My inlaws gave me a gift certificate to the RR and I took full advantage.