Plan called for 12x2-min repeats with target of 180+, followed by recovery jogging until HR dipped to 140. Went to Liberty Park and did roughly 2-mile warmup, including pullouts. Stomach didn't feel great and I just didn't feel quite right. About halfway through the first repeat, that feeling was magnified considerably, but I usually feel awful during the first couple of repeats, so I kept going. After 5 reps I had to make a pit stop, and for some reason it took forever for HR to come back down to 140 after I finished the pit stop and started running again (a full lap of 1.3 miles or so at a snail's pace). I ground out 4 more reps and called it a day, due to the fact that I was feeling really lousy and also because I was out of time. Not sure what was going on exactly, but just a general kind of malaise that has continued for the two hours since I finished the workout. I got almost 7 hours of sleep last night and more than 8 the night before, and I'm pretty sure I've been hydrating properly, so I'm not sure what to blame it on. I guess you just have a bad day sometimes.
Here are the splits:
1. AHR 164 (5:10/mi)
-1:12 recovery
2. AHR 171 (5:09/mi)
-1:41 recovery
3. AHR 174 (5:12/mi)
-3:38 recovery
4. AHR 175 (5:11/mi)
-2:03 recovery
5. AHR 175 (5:13/mi)
-12:00 recovery (here's where things really broke down)
6. AHR 169 (5:23/mi)
-1:12 recovery
7. AHR 174 (5:08/mi)
-2:15 recovery
8. AHR 173 (5:16/mi)
-5:12 recovery
9. AHR 173 (5:09/mi)
-5:04 recovery
Because I was feeling so out of sorts and because the last two recovery jogs were so long, I called it a day without doing any additional cooldown.
I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised by the splits. Based on how I was feeling, I expected them to be 5:30 or slower. Although today wasn't my best day, the shorter speedwork I've done over the past 3 weeks seems to have helped with the turnover. I'll try to focus on that instead of being too disappointed by the fact that I didn't finish the workout. | 