I hate Paul! OK, I actually only hate Paul's voice that gets in my head when I'm wanting to bail on a workout. It's the "leave it on the track" mantra that keeps ringing through my head. Enough! :-)
Today was one of those days you just write off and move on from. I did four warmup miles and then jumped into the workout: 4x1000m @ 2:57 with 1 minute rest.
First one was in 2:55, then 2:57. But it all fell apart after that. The third was in 3:07 and I fought hard just to keep a 3:04 on the final rep. Ugh. I performed terrible. I felt terrible. I don't know what it was but it didn't get any better on the ~6-mile cooldown. I had to stop twice because I was dizzy and couldn't run anything better than 7:50 pace back to my car.
It was a little warm but I don't know why I was so dehydrated and completely and utterly zapped of any and all energy.
But, thanks to Paul, I finished the workout even though I knew I was going to miss my times badly. | 