It was 28, light wind and light snow this morning. It felt good to get outside and I dressed a little too warm because I thought it was going to be more windy. I ran out and back on 300S. Today I planned on doing 8 x 800 at 3:00 with a 400 recovery. I wanted to do this workout on the track but the track is still covered with snow so just did it on the roads. It was not as accurate time wise as it would be if I did it on the track but should have close to the same effect. I started off with 2 mile warmup and I felt pretty good. I didn't do time splits on my watch for the intervals. I just ran at 6:00 pace and tried to hold that pace throughout. The first one went pretty good but was trying to get loosened up. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th all felt good and I was under 6:00 for most of these. On the 5th one I started to feel like I was having to give more effort but stayed on pace. Pushed a little harder on the 6th but stayed on track. The 7th my legs started to feel a little like jelly and I dropped off of the pace just a little. Maybe around 3:05. The 8th my legs really felt wobbly and dropped off a little more (maybe 3:07). I finished up with a 1 cool down. It was a pretty good effort. I was glad I finished it even though I had to push the last 3. I think the way my legs felt on the last 3 shows that this kind of training is a weakness for me and I need to work more on these types of efforts. I would like to repeat this workout again in a couple of weeks on a track to see how I am progressing. 66:16 (7:21 avg)
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