Time trial at the Olympic Oval this morning after work. Short shift at work today made it possible to get to the oval and do my quality marathon pace run. After a brief warmup on the cycle I shed my sweats and clicked my watch on the number line. First mile at 6:24/mile pace and then quickly grooved into a relatively comfortable 5:48/mile effort and stayed there for about ten miles never going below 5:38 or slower than 5:50/mile pace. After an hour of that, I then began to shift gears and push things down a little. Down to 5:38, 5:36, 5:41, 5:38 again, strange how I keep hitting this split. slowed to 5:50, 5:46, and then pushed again for the last mile with steady 400 meter splits of 1:22-124. Last mile in 5:32 roughly. Whew!! done.. Brief cooldown for a mile and some more spinning to massage the muscles a bit. Feeling so good about my training this year. There is a PR coming on, I feel it in my gut with the way I have been running this winter already.
Ran into Corwin Jackson and talked about our class reunion, his sprint coaching for USATF. Discussed some other things and took off. Darkhorse out.. | 