I realized that I wasn't slowing down

Thursday, 8/15--Met up with the crew at the country club.  We did the 7.9M course in reverse.  Tempo would begin a couple of miles in.  There were 7 of the 14 or so of us planning to run tempo.  Coming off North Hills the pace quickened as expected.  We were about 13:55 into the run.  I hung with the guys for most of the first mile.  And then it happened: my back began to tighter a bit, and I began to tire.  Tempo mile 1: 6:30.  The top two guys(whose names I cannot remember) had dropped the pace even more and were moving closer to 6:00.  Kevin K and John Manion were falling behind but not at the same rate I was. Mine was greater. Steve was just a few meters behind them.  Two mile into the tempo I realized that I was .1M behind Steve, .15 behind Kevin and Manion, and .2 behind the top two guys.  It was not until afterwards that I realized that I wasn't slowing down; it's just that I was maintaining and they were accelerating.  Steve would eventually finish 200m ahead of me, Kevin and Manion 300 and the other guys, probably 400.  My tempo stopped at 40:15.  So, that means I the middle 4 miles from 13:55-40:15, or 26:20, which is about 6:35 pace.  I stopped with the other guys and waited for Barry, who was less than a minute behind me.  Moving at 8:00 pace, we then jogged the last portion of the course--about 2M--to the country club. We finished up after 58 minutes, but the real time, at least for me, was close to 2 minutes faster.  For others, it was even faster, given the stop at Rosedale.

Tues, 8/14--Went to Henderson.  1.5M, 1M, .5M with a 400m jog in-between

Wed, 8.15--Did 6.6M (3 x Rustin-plus loops)
loop 1--16:40--7:35 pace
loop 2--32:40 (16:00)--7:16 pace
loop 3--47:58 (15:18)--6:57 pace