77F, 90%. Went to the track this morning for the classic 4 x 2400m, w/ 400m active recovery. To get through it, I decided to set the bar even lower - I would accept 10:00 per rep (6:40 pace). Considering that back in peak shape days, I'd want to be around 9:00 per rep, this was conceeding a lot, but I'm accepting that I have to work with whatever the running gods have bestowed upon me.
Fortunately it wasn't quite that bad and I ended up averaging 9:31 (9:38, 9:41, 9:31, 9:13). That's not quite good, either, but probably the correct-ish stimulus, especially considering I'm a little gun-shy.
The high school XC team (like 40-50 kids!) showed up right as I was starting my first rep, and I was really cursing my luck....aren't they supposed to be running on grass or something right now? Fortunately they did in fact mostly run on the fields, and not really on the track except to do some lunges in lanes 2-8 and some kind of whistle-based fartlek thing during my last rep. If anything, it kept me going.
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