AM: 5.1 miles at 8:14 ave pace, around Kowloon. PM: 3.75 warm up at HKSI, then 5x1000. I wanted 3:26-3:30. It was my first workout on the HKSI track with Coach Paul witnessing, so I am afraid I let my pride do the running. First one was 3:25, and I thought, "Dang it, now I have to run all at 3:25 so I don't look like I was making a mistake". Second was 3:23, third I missed my times because my watch was acting crazy, but Paul gave out splits and I was about 3:24. Then I hit the toilets instead of the 400m rest, then #4 was 3:24 I believe, then the last was 3:23-25. Obviously didn't get all splits on my watch but all were 3:23-3:25. On the last one I hit the 800m at 2:46 and I knew i had to kick it in to get the 3:25 and I did so nicely. The effort was supposed to be 5k effort, but I ran them harder than 5k effort, basically as fast as I could will keeping level splits. If I was in 2:45 shape, these are the splits I should do for this workout (but probably be able to do 10 reps, which I could not). Kick butt workout. It was really helpful to have the positive pressure there of the other athletes and Coach Paul, but I need to be careful to not overdo workouts. 6k cool down in 5:29 ave pace. | 