Today was a tempo run: three miles done around 9:20 pace with a mile warm up and cool down, for a total of five miles. I struggled to ‘find’ or ‘feel’ the pace tonight. I was either huffing and puffing going too fast, below 9:10 down to 8:50, or found myself going too slowly at 9:40. Ideally I would’ve liked to have maintained around 9:20-9:25 the whole time. I kept having to tell myself to slow down, as I often do. Again, though, my legs just felt exhausted in the first mile of the steady pacing. I managed to finish the run but there were a few times when I honestly thought ‘I can’t do this.’ I’m looking very forward to our break in Norway the end of next week. I really hope that the break from training for a few days will help revive me and I’ll come back rested and ready to go again. If not, then I may have to try and tone down some of the training. I really don’t want to do that because I know I can run this much but if I continue to feel so tired, something isn’t working. Watch this space. Rest day tomorrow. Check in again on Saturday.