8 Mile Run

8 mile morning run, getting going at 6:45am. Plan was to run my warm up/cool down miles at a 10:00 pace, and the 6 middle miles at a 9:00 pace, was able to stick with that pretty good. Total time of 1:13:35, average pace of 9:11, AHR of 159. I had to push it a bit a few times to get the splits I wanted and my heart rate crept up to above 170, but overall it was a pretty good run. I took a 30 second walk break each of my middle miles, and a 1 min. walk break in the warm up/cool down miles. Splits of 9:54, 8:51, 8:57, 8:56, 8:59, 8:59, 8:58 and 9:58.