I'm working on varying surfaces and watching road camber so I drove to the highschool track today and did 28 laps--reversed directions halfway through. It was boring--even more boring than I anticipated. I kept speeding up wanting to get it over with and I was really wrestling with myself to stay at recovery pace. I finally made the bargain with myself that if I ran at 9:30 pace the whole time I could run one quarter as fast as I felt like toward the end. It worked and I stayed at 9:30 pace except for an 89 second quarter on the 25th lap. Felt wonderful. Did my strength drills interspersed with striders afterward, stretched, drove home, and at a massive breakfast--2 eggs, two pieces of toast and margarine, half a piece of toast with peanut butter(my daughter commandeered the other half), and a cup of skim milk. |