AM: (13 miles, 1:46:27). 33:27 wu/28:34 cd. 16 x 400 @ 10K>5K pace w/ 200 recovery. It was brutal, it was ugly. The wind was blowing so hard that I was going sideways a few times -- despite weighing in 3 lbs heavier this morning ... All the way down to the track I kept telling myself not to compare todays workout with the one I ran a few weeks ago, I figured the wind was going to cost me at least 1-2 secs/lap. I ended up running the first lap too hard, but tried to just relax. Summary: 1st 1600: 1:39, 1:40, 1:41, 1:41 (6:41), ave recovery 1:08 2nd 1600: 1:41, 1:42, 1:38, 1:41 (6:42), ave recovery 1:08 3rd 1600: 1:38, 1:39, 1:41, 1:39 (6:37), ave recovery 1:12 4th 1600: 1:39, 1:40, 1:39, 1:38 (6:36), ave recovery 1:10 I ran a littler harder than I meant to, because of the wind (did I mention how windy it was? :-) ) - but all and all, I have to be happy about the weather here, and my improvement this month (last month I ran 6:52, 6:35, 6:49, 6:49). This was the last hard workout until my race ... the goal is to have 10K pace feel "easy" (at least compared to 5K pace ;-) ).
PM: (4 miles super duper easy). Alas, my blogger friends, my cat Titus has struck again. He was obsessed with the laundry room since Sunday -- I told Dean that he must have brought something inside (from outside), I saw little blood stains on the floor yesterday morning. So Dean moved the washer, dryer and all the other things around last night but did not find anything. This morning I saw the mouse/desert rat ... I told Dean that we needed to catch it (while it was alive) because I did not want Titus torturing the poor thing any more. Well, when I got back from my run Dean had left me a note "I caught and removed the mouse, unfortunately, he did not survive". RIP little fella.
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