82F, S 10 mph. Track day. 12 x 400 (200m active recovery) was the workout, was not looking forward to it.
I ran to ACU and jogged around campus for awhile, then hit the track with about 8 miles on the watch; fairly slow warmup. It's funny, during the week the track is unlocked at every entrance but on Sunday everything is locked except for one gate, and I always have to jog around to find it as they seemingly rotate which gate is open. Finally found a way in, and started the intervals. My goal was just to run smoothly and keep it below 5k pace.
1:31.8, 1:31.7, 1:28.0, 1:33.9, 1:30.8, 1:32.7, 1:33.5, 1:33.7, 1:32.7, 1:32.1, 1:32.2, 1:29.0.
Average 400 was 1:31.8 (6:09 pace), and much slower for the 200s. The 200m recovery jogs got slower and slower, paces started in the low 8:00s and eventually almost hit 10:00 as I got tired. So painful. Not smooth at all once I got to 7 or 8 repeats. I told myself I could go ahead and give up if I couldn't keep at least 1:35, but the splits kept unfortunately coming in below. I had to walk a good 100m after the last one to collect myself, then slowly made my way home.
Anyway, the real highlight today is my oldest daughter's birthday party (she turned 5 earlier this week). I have only been around for 1 of her birthdays so far, so this one will make me 2-for-5. Poor kid! | 
