Doug's Running Thingy

Made it out the door this morning to get the workout out of the way.  Ran 2.8 pretty quick (7:37, 6:42, 6:37 pace), then did 2X 200 meter hills around the block with 600 meter jog in between.  Followed that up with a bit of stretching and about 20 minutes of dumbbell circuit training.

Nice cool late afternoon workout at the trails and track.  Ran 3 miles warmup with the middle mile at 6:30 pace. Followed up with 8X200 between 35 and 33 with a jog across the infield recovery.  Finished up with a couple barefoot striders and then 2 barefoot laps around the infield.  

Quick little track meet/scrimmage/fish fry this evening at the school - was over quick enough to get in a workout on the neighboring trails.  Mile and a quarter warmup and Mile and a quarter cool down, with about 2 miles worth of one minute on one minute off in the middle.  Good effort. 

Track workout this evening in gorgeous light winds and 60 degree temps - nice.  Started with 2.25 mile warmup at about 7:30 pace.  In preparation for racing 200s, 400s and 800s over the next couple years, I decided that I will do most of my track work at distances of 300, 500 and 1,000 meters, with speedy stuff out of the blocks thrown in as well.  Today I did one of each with full recovery (300 at 49 sec; 500 at 89 sec; 1,000 at 3:32), with the plan to build to a once per week effort of 300, 500, 1000, 500, 300.  My other regular workout will be 8 to 12 X 200 at 800 pace with jog across the infield recovery.  Onward.