Wed, Aug 28 - 4.8 miles

Met up with Herbert today to run Regional Park. 90 degrees at the start. We went out with the goal of beating our best 2 lap pace of 10:38 (which we set just Sunday) and to have a negative split. I knew early on we were running pretty well and at the top of the hill (slowest point in each lap) we were still under 10:00 pace. I eased up as much as I could finishing up the lap as I knew the heat would end up taking its toll eventually. Went through lap one at 9:53 pace. Immediately starting the 2nd lap I could tell we had slowed. It was getting hot. We walked a bit more on the hills and Herbert was starting to lag a little. As we topped the hill the second time, I noticed that the negative split was definitely not within reach, but we were only slightly over 10:00, 10:06 I think. I pushed the pace as much as I dared knowing we were so close to the 10:00 pace. Picked it up on the last 2/10 and were able to lower the pace to 10:01. Not a negative split but we took 36 seconds off Herb's best pace and unbeknownst at the time had lowered my two lap best pace by 11".