Ladder Intervals. 2 miles easy, 1 min., 2 min., 3 min., 2 min., 1 min., 2 min., 3 min., @ 5K-1,500m pace w/=duration recoveries, 1 mile easy. Average pace: 9:13.
45°F, 80% humidity, winds calm.
I went to the track again today. I have a nice 2 mile route that goes from my front door to the track, but I was day dreaming this morning and missed a turn and ended up doing a little loop in the route twice and so my warm up was actually 2.32 miles. And it was slow - 10:13 pace.
My pace on the intervals was 1 min. @ 6:53, 2 min. @ 7:25, 3 min. @ 7:06, 2 min. @ 7:01, 1 min. @ 6:53, 2 min. @ 7:01, 3 min. @ 7:06. I knew I went out too fast on the first one and so I guess I slowed it down a little too much for the second one as a result. After that, I looked at my watch only for time, never for pace, and just ran by feel. It's interesting that I ran exactly the same pace on both of my 1 minute intervals. I just noticed that both of my 3 min. intervals were at 7:06 pace, and, if you throw out the first 2 min. interval, the other two 2 min. intervals were both at 7:01 pace. That is really freaky. I checked my Garmin data to make sure that's what it really shows, and it is.
The person and dog that I saw on the track last week were there again today, but this time they stayed in an outside lane.
The track is in the green belt between my neighborhood and the middle school. There are lots of paved trails going through the green belt. There also a lot of short cut dirt trails through the weeds that the kids have made walking to the middle school. I take one of these organic trails to get from a paved trail to the track. That's fine when I'm going to the track, but when I went to leave the track and head home, I have a hard time finding the end of that trail in the dark, even with my head lamp. I had to wander around in the weeds for a little bit this morning to find the trail. When I stopped running and was walking around looking for the trail, my glasses fogged up, which made it even harder to find the trail.
Okay here's a picture that shows the area I'm talking about. When I took this picture, I was standing on the hill where I do hill sprints (the hill doesn't look very impresive from this angle) and just a few yards behind me, the trail meets the street that I live on about 10 houses down from my house.
Now I'm adding Hill Sprint Hill pictures taken from the other direction. In this first one, I'm standing on the hill, near the bottom and I think it makes the hill look a little scary. This is what I see while I'm running it.
This one is from a little farther away, on the aforementioned dirt trail and probably gives a more objective view of the hill. 
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