AM: First track workout in HK. Got lost a couple of times trying to get to the Perth Street track finally found it when I was about to give up. 4.14 mile warm up in 8.24 pace. I was looking for this track because it opens earliest here: 6am. All tracks get locked up, and they typically have at least one worker/maintenance/security person there. So no early morning track workouts for me. Turns out this track is only a 300m track, so don't think I will be going back to it. It was ok for today's workout, though: 6x800m at tempo interval (5k) pace, 400m rest between. So I did them on the track and used my garmin for tracking, since figuring out the markers was hard. Aiming for 2:50-2:53. Did 2:50 (2:15 rest), 2:47 (2:16 rest), 2:48 (potty break then 2:04 rest), 2:46 (2:22 rest), 2:44 (2:13 rest), 2:41, then about three miles cool down. So I did these faster than I should have, but it was hard to track since I didn't have 200, 400, or 600m splits for monitoring. Went to HK Disneyland during the day. We were blessed with partly cloudy conditions, so it was hot and dank but not as bad as it could have been. I had choc mouse for first treat there, chicken curry for lunch, frozen pineapple chunk and korean squid (like fish jerky) for afternoon snack, turkey leg, corn on the cob and cheese bread stick for dinner. I left the fam at 7pm to go home early for evening run. Ran abt 43 min and about 5 miles, I found a closer track in this run, but it doesn't open until 7:15 so I won't be able to use this one until the weather cools. First core workout in probably 2 weeks. Started at phase 3 level 2 to ease back into it.
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