30F, w/c 26F. Little chilly, but great interval-running weather.
The plan was for a 5 mile warmup, then 8 x 800s with 400m jog recovery at the track. Well, after my warmup, I notice what looks like the entire ACU football team or something arriving there too. So on to Plan B, which was to set my watch up for 0.5 mile laps and do the repeats around the campus jogging path loop. So the workout ended up just about the same, I just did 0.5 miles fast and 0.25 miles slow, 8 times. I ran them pretty evenly but since it wasn't a track, there were some slightly overall uphill and downhill repeats.
5-ish warmup: 7:53AP
8 x 0.5 miles: 3:02, 2:57, 2:57, 2:59, 2:59, 3:02, 2:55, 2:51. AP was 5:56 for the 4 total fast miles. Recoveries were all basically 2:00-2:05 for the quarter mile inbetween (8:00-8:20 pace). It felt all frantic at first trying to get to 6:00 pace, but I sorta found a groove with it. A really uncomfortable groove.
Pretty much the times I was shooting for, even if I had gotten to run on a nice level track, so I'll call it a success and go back to avoiding VO2 max workouts again for as long as possible.
AP 7:19 for 13 miles. | 
