Great feeling workout today. It was a pretty easy workout, which is odd, because I used to think that doing 20 X 400 meters would be a pretty tough workout. Well, I guess it would be, just depending on the pace. It was easy today because the workout just called for 5K (80-82 seconds) pace. If I was doing mile pace (70 seconds) for 20 quarters I don't think I could have pulled that off and that would have been extremely difficult after the first 10. As it was, I averaged 80-81 seconds per quarter and did 20 of them with about 60 seconds of jogging 200 meters between each. The 60 seconds was plenty of recovery all the way to the end, which indicates I was hitting a sustainable pace for that workout. 14 miles total - ~1:40 with 3.5 w/u and 3 c/d. A lot of fast runners were out running around the track at Fairview today. Kenyon Neumann and Jeremy Freed did their workout of 7 X 3, 2, 1 at the same time as me, then Tyler McCandless, Pat Rizzo and Matty Reed showed up with Brad Hudson to do their workout of 8-10 x 800. Among a bunch of other people roaming around. It tends to be more enjoyable to do track workouts when a crowd of fast folks are out busting out the repeats at the same time. Another reason why being a runner in Boulder is pretty much the bee's knees. | 