Specific-Endurance Intervals - 2 miles easy, 5 x 2K @ half-marathon-10K pace w/3 min. active recoveries, 2 miles easy. Average pace: 8:36. Level 2 Shred. 5 am, 41°F, 40% humidity, winds calm. My neck is still a little stiff, but the discomfort seems to have moved from my neck into my left shoulder. The shoulder doesn't feel too bad, except when I run. The bouncing seems to bother it. The first time it bothered me was yesterday morning when I ran. I remember it hurting at the first of my run, but then I didn't remember it bothering me for the rest of the run, so I decided to run with it this morning. Once again, it hurt at the beginning of the run but not so much later on. I could still feel it later in the run, but it didn't hurt as much. I wonder what's going on with it. It's very strange. I didn't get back from my run until after Thing 2 had gone to seminary. Apparently he got his ride okay. I'm glad that we've started this car pooling arrangement because it lets me get some relatively long runs in on some mornings. I was going to do this workout on the track, but my son reported yesterday that there was still snow on the track, so I programmed this workout into my watch and did the workout on the roads instead. Since my watch uses English measurements rather than metric, I set the intervals to 1.25 miles instead of 2 K. In any case, my paces on the intervals were 7:58, 8:01, 7:36, 7:35, 7:26. The first two (especially the second one) were mostly uphill, while the last three were more downhill than uphill.
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