Thanks everyone for the comments and support! Everyone is continuing to do well.
Today I took advantage of family sleeping over at my house to sneak out early for a run while everyone is asleep. I didn't feel up to killing myself on a killer workout (my son is sick and I feel a hint of it coming on) so I ran more by feel today than specific times. I started out easy for the first mile and then built in intensity. By mile 4 I was running around 6:30-6:40 pace effort (I ran on lots of hills and for the uphill miles, it was slower and on the downs it was faster). I ran about 4 miles total of higher intensity tempo work, but I wanted to do a bit of VO2Max stuff so I ran by Logan High Track and did an 800 pretty hard to see where I was at. I ran the first 400 in 76 and then ran the next 400 in 80 seconds. (Total 2:36) It seemed pretty hard, as I was tired, but I think I could shave 10 seconds off pretty easy. My 800meter PR is 2:23 so I think I am getting close to that fitness level. With some VO2max training I think I can go for my mile PR record this summer of 5:03 as that is a goal of mine.
Total Time: 1:27:06 (6:56 ave)
Ave HR: 163
Funny story: Today while running in the morning frost. I was running on the sidewalk and a minivan jumped the curb and hit a pole right next to me. It was only 10-15 feet away. Luckily it was not moving that fast. I stopped and made sure everyone was ok. The hispanic family was fine. The windows were so frosted over I couldn't even see in them. They obviously couldn't see out either. I looked over the damage with them and laughed because the hood was rusted from the last time they ran into something. I gave them a lecture about scraping their windows and some sob story of how they almost killed me. They were more scared about me calling the cops and wanted to get out of there. | 