Tempo Friday

Did a tempo run this morning in the cool weather. 11 miles with 6 at LT pace. My splits for the 6 miles are:

Lap	Lap Time	Avg
3	07:41.7	159
4	07:30.3	167
5	07:23.0	170
6	07:25.5	170
7	07:21.5	172
8	07:16.1	171

I've had a tendency to start these LT things at too fast a pace which leads to a quick first mile. I tried to slow down my effort so that I would be on pace for the first mile, but as it turns out, it was a bit too slow. My HR has been way down the past couple of days and todays was no different. If you compare this to the LT I did 3 weeks ago or even the one I did last week in the super hot weather, my pace was a bit faster but my HR was way down. Todays tempeature was 13C which is close to the optimum marathon running temperature of 12C. I ended up picking up the pace throughout the run cause it didn't feel like I was doing tempo pace. As you can see, my HR rose and fell as I encountered hills which shows that I seem to partially recover during the run. I'm thinking that with the cooler weather coming that I should focus my pace for these things at 7:15 rather than the 7:30 that I currently am doing. Unfortunately Pfitz doesn't have another LT run for another 3 weeks so it'll be a while befor I can find out.