Track! A little weird to do speedwork with no watch but I feel like the effort was there. It was a nice blustery 18mph wind on the homestretch each lap. The second half of the workout I had to run around the massive marching band each lap but it was cool, didn't bother me and didn't bother them.
2 mile warm up, 4 x 200 with 200 recovery, quarter mile jog, then 10 x 800 with 400 recovery, then 1.5 mile cooldown. I tried to keep it close to 5k effort for the 800s and sprinted like a madman for the 200s. Anything to make marathon pace feel like a walk in the park.
My thoughts are that sub-3 is possible, within my capability right now, but it straight up has to hit on a cool day with no wind and on a day where I have my mojo...so if the stars align in my favor. Regardless, I will don the watch again for the marathon and run off of feel, no looking until the halfway mark. If I try to force a pace in the first half of a marathon I will blow up, so I will run it by feel the first half and then go to the well the second half and see what happens. This worked for St. George, and the conservative first half payed off, although it was a little scary to know that I would HAVE to negative split to reach my goal. Prairie Fire is very very flat, especially in the second half, so a good setup to put it at cruising speed and hang on.
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