Tempo Run on Parkrun course ~~~

Weather warming up again so a bit of  struggle this morning for the 2 x 3km sections of 9km. 
Always happy to run our parkrun course where there are shaded areas further along past Saturday's turnaround.  I took a couple of detours off the path where the shade becomes quite dense.

I had Garmin set for 500m splits and VP at 8:10m/k, pace based on recent 5k finish time of 40 minutes.  All splits were OK and fairly even; not too difficult but hard enough on a very warm morning!



Program:
1.5km easy
3km @ 8:10m/k
1.5km easy
3km @ 8:10m/k
Short cool-down.

2 x 3km (500m splits):
4:16;   4:00;   4:06;   4:10;   4:25;   4:10
 
4:07;   4:07;   4:05;   4:05;   4:05;   4:10 

TE  2.3   Maintaining!

Garmin showed I was ahead of VP for these splits, so I'm happy with that!