Last night I jogged up to the track and ran my first tempo in five years.   I forgot what I was missing.  I love running LTs on the track.  And I was thrilled with my pace, predicting a sub 20 5km, which I wasn’t expecting.  I glanced at my watch after my first lap and saw I was quick.   And then when I was quick at the  half I kind of panicked and intended to slow down, but it didn’t really happen.  It ended up feeling pretty smooth and comfortably hard.  I’ve really lost that sense of pace but it will return.  I was expecting 7s but ran 6:30s for three miles- short I know but I needed to feel good about it, my hold on this motivation is so tenuous right now.   My long runs are now 11+, which really helps with endurance and I am ready to tentatively dip my toe into the racing thing again.  September 21…..I will report back on that.