Great workout this morning. First day I actually felt somewhat solid again on my warm up in about a week, felt recovered finally from last weeks workout I guess. This week we bumped up the distance while attempting to maintain the pace. I nailed it with very even splits and still felt good enough to do some fast 200's at the end. It was one of those mornings that just worked, and felt smooth...I like those mornings. That's not to say it wasn't a butt kicking workout, my HR was close to 180 on many of the sets, but the easy/rest days definitely paid off to get me back to feeling better today. George joined Jason and I this morning at the indoor track, which was a perfect venue with yesterday's 4 inches of fresh snow...the outdoor tracks were definitely not an option. Here were my splits for the 8 X 800 Meters: 2:38, 2:39, 2:39, 2:40, 2:38, 2:39, 2:40, 2:39 Jason was running between 2:29-2:33 on his sets. GZ was just barely behind me on most of them. We only did 2 X 200 M to finish off instead of the 4 we did in the past, and I did those in 29 and then 28. Felt good to do a 28 at the end...first time I've ever seen that number on a 200M that I can recall. 11.5 miles for the morning with 4 miles of just under 5:20 pace and .25 at sub 4 min. HR avg 152, with it topping out at 179 on each of the last four 800's
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