16 miles early (4:30 a.m) this morning as part of a Big Workout with the Circle of Trust. The plan was to warmup with 4 miles then do 2 miles at Tinman Tempo pace (6:00 min) then 6x1 mile repeats @ LT pace (5:30 min mile projected pace) w/200 m recovery in between and then cool down. I've been feeling very trashed this week but today I felt a lot better than the last two days- what a blessing because this workout would have killed me if I'd have been feeling like I did early this week. The warmup went by fast like always and then we started the Tinman. It was nice to kind of get the legs going at that pace. The problem with the whole workout was it was dark and very hard to see the trail. Now to start the miles and I'm really stressing about it. For some reason I feel like a lamb walking to the slaughter... 1. 5:18- Got out strong and trying to get a feel for the workout. Like I said running in the darkness is weird. 2. 5:24ish- I didn't start my watch on this one so when I finished there was nothing. Dave was a short distance back and said this is a ballpark of where I was at. 3. 5:25- Just trying to get through this- halfway baby! 4. 5:23- Locked in to a pretty good little groove on these middle one's. 5. 5:19- I can see the workout coming to an end and I'm getting butterflies. 6: 5:16- A really good mile. I felt really strong coming up the trail here- at the halfway point I checked all the sensors and my body said you can go faster so I tried to finish hard. There is a small hill on the last quarter so a hard finish here is a good finish. Cool down back up past the parking lot. Very glad to have this one in the past. Considering how I've felt lately I was happy to put together a solid workout for once today. Last time I did this workout a few weeks back it trashed me for a good week or more so hopefully I'll recover a little better from this one. (black stratus- 132.5) 3 miles this afternoon. I didn't feel too bad as far as the legs go. The sun did feel really hot but the temp was only 95 or so... so I guess it wasn't that bad. I like 3 miles in the afternoon rather than 8 any day of the week. I did a little over a mile of this barefoot up at the GS park. I kind of just ran little crazy loops all over the grass.
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