AM: 10 miles, 3 kind of fast miles, that will certainly tire the legs out for this afternoon's (hopefully) workout. I suppose I could have done it this morning, but have you ever just not wanted to do it? Today was that day. I watched two of the guys get a lead on me in the first interval and just mailed the rest of it. They even beat me on the sprint work at the end. I used to be such a fast sprinter- getting old really sucks. In my mind I'm zooming- in reality, I'm getting zoomed by. I suppose that's okay. I'm just happy to be out there and still going. I even reminded myself today that six months ago I was in my third straight month of no running.
PM: 2 mile warmup with half a mile of striders, then a workout: two sets of 5x800 with 90 second recoveries and 3 minutes in between sets. Recoveries ended up being between 90 seconds to two minutes.
Splits- 2:30, 2:28, 2:28, 2:27, 2:26, 2:26, 2:26, 2:26, 2:27, 2:25
Finally decided to run a workout-workout. Definitely a confidence builder. A 5-mile workout is serious business. I almost broke at the sixth interval and convinced myself to switch to 400s instead to finish up, but I'm really proud of myself for not- they just aren't the same, they're just to easy to 'cheat' on and use the wrong reserves. The last interval was awesome. About halfway through I knew I had the workout in the bag, and I couldn't wipe the smile from my face. I turned it on with about 200m to go and cruised in for my fastest interval.
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