your tempo is my jog wrote:
I run entirely at my own pace unless racing.
I was once finishing up an easy run to a trailhead where I was shuffling along like a grandmother and heard someone crashing and gasping behind me in order to finish ahead of me
A few weeks later that person was stunned that I beat them by over 20 minutes in a half marathon. They couldn't understand how that was possible when they had "beaten" me in that training run.
It's moments like this that making racing fun.