track fan

Have a nice meeting. Use your speed training to get there on time.

You certainly have the speed. Yeah for confidence building. Boo for meetings.

Very nice speed! You should feel VERY confident going into your track workouts. Do you work out with a group?

Hi Carolyn, meetings are the bane of job .. I despise them and yet every year I gather more of them that I "have" to attend. ick.

Auntie, I don't actually have a group to run with. I am coached by Greg McMillan, but he doesn't have any other athletes here in Tucson. I have done track workouts in the past two years, just not focusing on the 10K ... although when we were in Flagstaff a few weeks ago I talked to Greg, and based on my last couple years of training I am not sure I am going to do quite the same type of workouts this time as when I was focusing on the 10K before. My body responds much better to longer intervals with shorter recovery than to the 400/800 type speed workouts. I know my least - and I do mean very very least - favorite workouts is going to happen no matter what (3 x 2 miles @ 10K race pace with 800m recovery -- this is one tough workout, but if you can hit it you can be assured you are in shape -- and actually if you don't nail it you still could do ok if conditions are perfect!!). Hope all is well with you. I forgot to answer you yesterday, it is funny, when I am running, I think about running ... sometimes scheduling (layout my days work). My work thought usually has to be done in a controlled environment (or when I am laying awake at night not being able to sleep). When I was a student I was much better at being able to solve problems in my head, but I can't do it much anymore (once I figured out a proof I had been working on for over a week while I was in the shower, I almost bought a grease pencil during that semester so I could work stuff out on the shower stall!).