9.33 miles @ 7:45 average w/ 3X1600 I had two things to worry about this morning when I woke up, 1600 repeats and finishing early enough to get to my dental appointment and the dental appointment itself. I guess that is three things. I went to the Y and got there just before 6:30 (probably should have gotten there a little earlier). Warmed up with about 2.5 slower miles to get warmed up. Then I put on my crocs and ran across the muddy field to get to the track. Today it was even muddier than last time and ended up getting mud all up and down my leg. Got to the track, toweled off my feet and put my running shoes back on. The cross country kids were doing there practice in the field, must have been a great workout for them. Did one slow lap around the track to survey it. There was a bench partially sticking into one of the lanes and a couple sections of mostly dried mud but nothing too bad. The repeats went well. Had to play the usual mind games for each lap and each repeat, but nothing out of the ordinary. 3 was definitely harder than just doing 2, hopefully 4 won't be bad when that time comes. Here are my splits: 6:04, 6:00, 5:58 I was really happy with these, especially the last one since that is the first time I have done one of these faster than 6:00. The other nice thing is that I can trust these paces since I didn't have to depend on my garmin.
Back across the field in my crocs, then cooled down with a couple of slow miles to get over 9 for the day. Made it back home to get ready and over to my dental appointment 5 minutes early!
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