It was back to doing a little speed play on the treadmill. After work, I did my routine interval workout consisting of 4 miles of half-mile intervals (i.e., the slow halves at 8.5 miles per hour, while the fast halves at 10.5). My time for the four miles was 25:35 (not a bad pace, but there is plenty of room for improvement). I followed my interval training with a 0.6-mile cool down run.
After I got home, while I watched a recording of Obama’s Inauguration, I did 400 sit-ups and 12 bridges (held each for approximately 10 seconds). Also, while watching the enormous crowd gathered on The National Mall, I was thinking to myself that I can wait to run The Mall again. Last summer, I had the opportunity to run it for the first time and it was an absolutely enjoyable 6.1 miles (my route included the FDR and Jefferson memorials, which added on some extra mileage to the run). | 