Met up with Josh at 5:45 on 3rd Ave. He agreed to join me for a little Thursday morning insanity. We warmed up 3 miles over to 15th E. and then ran 2 miles at Tinman tempo pace, 6:12 and 6:13. We didn't try singing the Star Spangled Banner or anything, but it felt pretty good. Soon enough, we had arrived at Sugarhouse park. After a couple of minutes of cooldown while I tried to set my watch to display all the fields I wanted to see, we started the fartlek part of the run in the park. We ran 5 x 3 min with between 1:30 and 2 min jog between intervals. The fartlek parts were all run at sub 5:35 pace, with the fastest at 5:26 pace. This is over variable terrain in the park: some flat, some climbs, some descents. Then we headed back toward home via 15the E. At Sunnyside Park, I ran 6 x ~100m on the grass. Not terribly fast, but enough to get my body moving properly. Then just easy peasy lemon squeezy for the rest of the run home. | 