Speed Intervals: 3 miles easy, 14 x 1 min @ 5K pace/1 min. easy, 3 miles easy.
Weather at 6:00 am: 34°F, 68% humidity, wind avg. 6 mph, gusting to 12 mph, S.
I was supposed to do 15 intervals instead of 14 but I got messed up on the counting. I tried to use the workout feature on my Garmin, which I have never used before. I programmed the workout into the Garmin correctly, but then I wasn't sure whether the Garmin automatically recorded a lap each time it started a new step in the workout, so I was hitting the lap button manually at the beginning and end of each interval. As it turns out, the Garmin was doing it automatically too, and so I got through the intervals twice as fast as I was supposed to. I finally realized this when the Garmin said the workout was done and I knew I was nowhere near done. I wasn't sure how many intervals I had done though, because I had stopped hitting the lap button manually at some point. So I just guessed and did 5 more intervals, timing them manually. It turns out I had done 9 before (though the 9th was almost 2 minutes because the Garmin quit the workout before I realized it), so I had a total of 14 intervals. I was supposed to do 15. Oh well. So now I know how the workouts feature works and I'll use it again next time I have a relatively complicated workout that I need help keeping track of.
Incidentally, my pace on the intervals was: 8:21, 8:12, 7:50, 8:17, 8:24, 8:08, 8:30, 8:39, 8:48, 7:40, 7:41, 8:28, 7:50, 7:41. According to McMillan, may 5K pace is 8:47, so I was a little under that most of the time. The last 5 I didn't look at the pace on the watch at all. I just ran by feel and with one exception was about a minute faster/mile than I was supposed to be. | 