AM: Big track workout on stale legs and hot humid conditions. Yeah my favorite! 5k warm up, including stretching. Then 3x (1600, 1000, 800, 400, 200) with 200m jogging rest between each interval and set. So this is a 9 mile workout, 7.5 miles of hard stuff. 1600 is 10k, and I gradually work down to mile pace. I was really concerned about the workout given not being recovered from the race, but there's only one way to find out if you can do a workout and that's to do it. First set: 5:51, 3:34, 2:49, 80, 37, nothing brilliant but acceptable. Feeling like negative splitting wasn't in the cards given how I felt, and it was heating up. Second set: 5:49, 3:35, 2:49, 79, 38, Third set (can I make it through the third set, feeling trashed, just decide to take it one at a time): 5:48 (ok), 3:39 (I obviously dog this one a bit, this is still 10k pace, struggling), get water in the next rest so that rest was about 40 seconds longer than the normal rest (1:20-1:30) at 2:08, tell myself I can fake an 800, 2:46, 79, 36.
During the workout was irritated by sweat in my eyes. During cool down my eyes hurt! Bad, especially when blinking or if I try to close them. I realized either I still had some make up on my face from the night before, or there was left over stridex on my face from the night before, coming down in sweat into my eyes. My vision was impaired and my eyes were bloodshot for about 4 hours after my workout, then they cleared up. I paid a price for my make up. See this is exhibit B for why women shouldn't wear make up. Exhibit A is all the pock faced, red faced, ugly, aging or indifferent male faces that surround us. If rugged is sexy in a man, then my pinkish, wrinkly, imperfect face is good enough for me. Thank you very much. 5kish cool down brought the workout to 24.86k's. PM: 5.2 miles on the tm at the gym. Natural stride produced 87 one sided strikes a minute. 90 only with concerted effort.
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