11.5 Workout in Liberty Park, two miles down then 6 by mile at HM pace with 400 jug rest then run home. After last Thursday burning me out for the better part of a week I decided to embrace more of the fast but not hard mantra. So I settled on miles around 5:30, on the 'crete as the grass is still thawing out. Didn't look at my watch for the first one and ended up running 5:49 but treated it as more of a warmup. Next five were 5:31, 5:30, 5:27, 5:29, 5:33. I was tired but not blasted after the last one, the park climbs from 13th S to 9th S, not really noticeable when running easy but during workouts it's tough. On my last interval two woman with 3 dogs between them managed to occupy the entire path. I said "come on" as I negotiated my way through them and they were like "so, whatever". After passing through I may have called them something that rhymes with witches, the pace was too crisp to remember clearly. 4.4 Nice run in the Aves.
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