The solitude of yesterday's run found its exact opposite with today's run. It's Tuesday, so speedwork, but where to run today? The plan was to head over to John Marshall High School to run on their track, but when we got there, school was in session and gym class was in full effect, so we decided to look elsewhere. We couldn't find anything close, however, so back to JMHS. This school is in the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles, and is the site where the movie "Grease" was filmed. The "track" is an unlined dirt path that roughly circles a multipurpose playing field. I ran a warm up mile, and discovered from my time and effort that the track was about 40m short of 400 meters, so it would be a little awkward keeping track today and my times below are not based on any accurate measurement. I ran a 4 lap warm up , followed by 4 strides. Then 1 x 4 laps in 5:05/ 2 laps easy 1 x 2 laps in 2:20 /1 lap easy 1 x 4 laps in 4:55 /2 laps easy 1 x 2 laps in 2:18 /2 laps easy 1 x 4 laps in 4:52 /2 laps easy 4 laps recovery 4 laps walking with Tory. Tory ran 9 laps and then we walked together. He's just getting back into shape and it was great to be out there with him. The funnies thing about this run was the setting itself. About 20 minutes into my run, out come the kids for another period of gym class. They milled around for a while and then started jogging some laps en masse. These are city kids and I stood out like a sore thumb, but it was so much fun to be out there among these kids. | 