General aerobic + speed - 7 miles w/ 8 x 100 m strides. 6:28 am, 57° F, 28% humidity, wind 14 ESE. I ran later than usual this morning because thing 2 doesn't have to be to school until 8:30 and thing 1 doesn't have to go to school at all since he has graduated now. The only issues were making sure that thing 3 was up on time and then getting thing 4 to the bus at 8:20. So I left on my run after I got thing 3 up and made sure he had everything he needed from me and could get himself to school. I actually wasn't really anxious to run today. I'm kind of burned out. But I feel good now that I've done it. It was a windy morning. Parts of the run were hard, particularly heading uphill into the wind on Quebec St. I ran about 4 1/2 miles to the high school track, where I did the strides. There was a group of what looked to be middle schoolers gathering at the track but they were hanging out near the long jump pit. There was one guy who must have been there teacher. I wonder if it was a PE class from the middle school doing a final test or something. The middle school is right by the high school so it's conceivable that they would use the high school track. I think it has a better long jump it than the middle school track does. A couple of other runners arrived at the track as I was finishing. The track is oriented north/south, and so all of my odd numbered strides were with the wind at my back and the even numbered strides were into the wind. AP: 8:56.
Splits before the strides: 9:56, 8:54, 9:02, 8:40, 0.51 @ 8:46.
Pace on strides (recovery pace): 5:53 (started too fast) (10:28), 6:55 (9:46), 6:24 (9:32), 6:27 (9:55), 6:28 (9:23), 6:29 (10:01), 6:01 (9:33), 6:14.
Splits after the strides: 9:07, 0.53 @ 9:01.
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