I had been anticipating this workout. I'm grateful for running, and separately for training. It's just fun. I hope that as my fitness declines over the years to come, that I can still enjoy getting out there and doing workouts, some of which will go well and others less well; I want to still enjoy the work and feel accomplished afterwards. Today I wanted to test my super shoes head to head, as the new ones didn't feel as good as I had hoped during my race. The end result is that they felt too similar to make a clear call. If I could buy a brand new pair, it would definitely be the Vaporfly 2s instead of the 3s. But I don't think it is a good idea to revert to my old 2s for upcoming races. I was supposed to do 2 miles, then a couple of 400s in each of the racing shoes separately, then another 2 miles. As usual, the first 400 was telling. It felt fast, so it wsa a good thing that I ran 70-71. 4:48 through the first 1600 before it caught up to me a bit and I finished in 9:47 for the first rep (goal was 10:00). I got 3-4 minutes rest between that and each of the 4s, which were run in 70-71, because it took a while to change shoes. On the last one I wasn't sure what I would do. I focused on trying to do a good or ok job on each lap, just like I had on my way home from my fast long run a few weeks ago. Once again, each split turned out ok. I hit 1600 in 4:50 and finished in 9:43. When you look back on previous workouts like miles or 800s, that's not bad at all. I'm not sure I'm in way better shape than I was when I ran Ks a little ways back, but either I've improved a lot or the rain and wind that day really slowed me down, as my 3K split was faster than I averaged for each K that day.
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