We had a workout today at 6:30 am, really early for me. When I woke up, though, I felt good. The menu today called for an 8000 meter AT run. Wetmore assigned me to the middle group, and set a goal time of 26:40. We began right on, or a bit below pace. The idea of the workout was to slowly squeeze the pace down while still staying fully aerobic. We hit the 5k in 16:40, and I felt really good. We did the final 3k in 9:44 to finish with a total time of 26:24 while negative splitting the end. I used to be sckeptical of the whole negative split thing, but as time goes on, I am becoming a firm believer in it. I was also amazed at how easy this felt, especially since we were running on grass. There was no point in time in which I felt like I was laboring. I definitely think that I could have done this a full minute faster in a race (here at altitude). Great workout! | 