AM:(9.5 miles, 1:20:33). Abbreviated wu and cd because I was running to catch a flight this morning. I drove to the track (because I did not have time to run the 4 miles to get there) and ran on the trails for a little while. I came on the track from this little gate that leads from the trail, and started to do some strides - all the other entrances to the track were roped off!! I bet you can't guess why? Well, because there was ice on the track. It rained (and snowed up at my work) most of the day yesterday, and was well below freezing overnight ... so ... I was in such a hurry this morning Dean scraped off my car when he left (he is so sweet), but it had frosted over again by the time I left ... Anyway, the first 800 was sort of gingerly, as I tried to assess how icy it was. It wasn't really bad, the sun was up, so although there were still some slick spots, mostly it was puddly. BUT -- with about 100m to go for my first 800 some guy came on the track and held his arm out into lane 1!!! I kept going, but I slowed down while I mentally "assessed" the threat level (he he) - I thought for sure they were going to kick me off the track ... but it was just a guy who wanted to know why they had the track roped off. Between evaluating the slickness, trying to figure out how to run 800 meters (he he) and "the guy" -- my first couple 800s were slow, I know. I would not recommend this approach for averaging 3:20s. It was a hard way to go, maybe not for you speedstars, but I will have you know, I have never done this many sub-3:20s in my life. 3:24, 3:22, 3:19, 3:17, 3:17, 3:17, 3:17, 3:16 Since I only did 8 and not 10 (time constraints coupled with the fact that between traveling, Dean fighting a cold, and switching days for this workout - meaning it was closer to my long run day that Greg had wanted -- I am playing it conservative right now, I don't want to get sick!!!!) it really is not a Yasso 800s predictor workout, but, I guess I will call it a good VO2 max workout. Especially for a slowpoke like me! PM: easy 4 from my hotel.
Happy Tuesday bloggers, I hope you are all happy and warm. I am dreading my all day meeting tomorrow, I have to be sort of "hard" for work in front of a lot of new people. Our "partners" for one of the projects I am working on are not "playing nice" and I have to show in my presentation what the cost of this type of behavior will be ... yikes. | 