2 mi warmup then 8 mile tempo on gravel road (turns out this might have been a mistake since it rained last night super muddy!) Primary goal for this tempo was sub 56 secondary goal was sub 58 Started off and in the first mile I was already making excuses.. great start but right around 7:10 so I thought ok this was not too slow with the road I can still make this work, but at the 4 mile turn around I was at 29:03 so I had not increased pace by nearly enough and then turned straight into the 20 mph wind for about 1.5 miles... Long story short I did not have it today, maybe it was the elements (hot and windy!) maybe it was the lack of sleep this week, but no excuses I should have been faster. The positive from this is I kept the same pace pretty much all 8 final time was 58:22 and pace was 7:12 looked at watch afterwards turned out my warmup was way faster than I wanted and I ran the warmup plus tempo in 1:13 or 7:18 pace so almost could call this a 10mile tempo 2mi cooldown | 