AM: 4.25 easy PM: 7.5 including 8 striders and 5x1200 at threshold pace (6:00min/mile). This was just a sanity workout. Get some speed without hurting the base. Lots of people do weekly threshold runs during base. It was supposed to be really easy but it wasn't. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't easy. The pace also was all over the place. The first rep went 80, 100, 91. Then it got slightly better but was still off and then we would close too quickly. Between the 80 mile weeks and weights I am probably just pretty tired. Or maybe I have some natural good/bad cyclic feeling during base that comes from doing workouts every other day during seasons. Saturday I felt horrible and yesterday I felt great. Today I felt medium to bad. Tomorrow perhaps I will rebound again. In any case I will probably be taking a big cutback week next week if I am feeling tired. Circuit training: crunches, lunges, leg lifts, pushups, arm swings, obliques crunches (both sides), arm swings, pelvic thrusts, jumps. x 3. Just did a reasonable number of each. Nothing that is gonna hurt bad later, but enough to build some strength. I think these are all pretty high yield workouts. Everything is pretty running specific either core or legs except the arm swings which are there because I realized that I don't really swing my arms hard even when doing striders and I will need them for the 800 and mile. And I have seen other good runners doing them.
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