Awesome morning for running (52, sunny, light wind). There was a definite hint of fall in the air. Today's plan was to do 4 x 3/4 mile at 6:00 pace which would be 4:30 with a 1/4 mile recovery. I decided to do this run on the roads to see how that would go. I didn't feel the best this morning. My legs were tired but wanted to stick with the workout. I did a two mile workout and then started the repeats. Here are the splits:
1st - 4:35
2nd - 4:32
3rd - 4:32
4th - 4:29
As usual I always seem to have trouble gettting started and my first one was off pace. The second I felt pretty good and tired to stay relaxed. The 3rd one was a little tough. It was on a slight uphill so I had to push on that one. By the 4th I was wondering if I was going to complete it but pushed it toward the end and was able to stay on pace. Turned out to be a pretty good workout on not good legs. Hope in the coming weeks to repeat this workout and stretch to 6 repeats.
PM: It was a beautiful sunny evening with temp of 71 and light winds. Just wanted to get in some easy miles after the workout this morning. I felt good starting out and ran faster than normal but it still felt easy. I wanted to try out my new Nike Frees so ran a 3 mile loop than came back home changed shoes and ran a couple of more. The Frees felt good but did have a little bit of a burning feel in the ball of my right foot. Might take awhile to get used to them and I won't run very far in them.
5.25 miles in 39:27 (7:30 avg) | 