AM: 65F, 68%. 11 mi. Today was goal HMP day. I wanted to do a lot more with today, given the cool weather, but my legs have been really heavy since my illness this weekend; I shouldn't have tried to jump right back into my schedule, probably. Anyway, I wasn't holding out much hope, especially after the warmup, but rolled into some mile repeats at goal pace on the track. I ended up doing 5 x 1600, 1 lap recovery. Through the miracle of mathematics, I found out that an 80-minute HM works out to about 91 sec/lap, so I aimed at 6:04 for these. Averaged 6:02 (6:06, 6:03, 6:02, 6:00, 5:59).
I was headed for a much faster 5th rep, but kind of bonked the last lap and ran it in 94. It was then that I decided a 6th rep would do more harm than good, so pulled the plug after 5. Aerobically, these felt great. My legs were just heavy and dead from the very first rep. I think it's a pretty good sign that I was able to still churn out 90-91 sec laps. I believe I'm close to having one of those breakthrough workouts when everything comes together. Right now I probably just need to let the ol' body rest up a bit more than I'd planned this week.
PM: 30 min slow on the TM. Legs liked the plodding...more of that to come the next couple days.
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