AM: 5 miles very easy on the tm. PM: Track workout at night. I had horrible sleep last night and no time for nap today so came wasted and Coke-Zero tweaked. So also needing to pee every 5-10 minutes in my warm up. Coach modified the workout since Ali is t + 2.5 days from a hm and t - 5 days to a marathon, so she was doing HM pace (93 per lap), and I was doing the first two laps with her, then surge for the last two (5:50 total goal, so 2:45 second 800 in the mile). So 93,92,83.82. Something like that. The first two laps sometimes felt like jogging, sometimes felt hard when facing the wind (windy AGAIN). Full lap recovery, so about 3 minutes rest: | # | Time | Breakdown | Rest | | 1 | 5:51 | 3:06 2:45 | 2:39 | | 2 | 5:49 | | 3:26 | | 3 | 5:48 | | 2:44 | | 4 | 5:46 | | 3:08 | | 5 | 5:47 | 3:03, 2:44 | 3:00 | | 6 | 5:46 | 3:02, 2:44 | 3:37 | | 7 | 5:35 | 3:00, 2:35 | |
On the last one, coach said I needed to bust a move but to not cheat (by making the first two laps faster), so I did a bit of both. I cheated just a bit (both laps were 90) then the third lap was 80 and the last lap was 75. I felt so good being able to do this being tired. Both my legs were tired and I was just underrested. Ali just did the first 5 and another girl Sarah jumped in on the 4th one and she had two more when I had finished, so I paced her on another mile after my #7 above, so it was a 6:07 mile I counted as threshold.
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