Recovery + Speed - 5 mi w/ 6 x 100 m strides. 5:45 am, 60° F, 43% humidity, wind 9 SSE. I needed to get an earlier than usual start this morning because I've got a busy day including a full day of work. So I rejoined the sub-6 club for just one day. I did the strides on the high school track, as is my habit recently. There was a woman jogging on the track. She was going pretty slowly. I did one easy lap before I started the strides and I passed her during that lap and then passed her again during my 5th stride. I underestimated the distance of the route I decided to take home from the track and so I was still about 1/4 of a mile or so from home when I hit 5 miles. But I'm supposed to be taking it easy, so I stopped and walked the rest of the way home. I just checked the weather forecast for Newport for Saturday. It's being saying 40% chance of rain all week, and now it says partly cloudy with a 10% chance of rain. That's good news for me. I think Snoqualmie would prefer mostly cloudy, even if it means a higher chance of rain. AP: 9:55. Splits: 10:36, 10:03, 10:10, 8:53 (the strides were in this mile), 9:56.
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