Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

45F.  6 @ 8:14 AP.  Weather will be incredible all day today - 365 days of this, please.

AM:  36F.  7 @ 7:50 AP.

PM:  62F.  4 @ 7:55 AP.  This was at lunch, another absolutely perfect weather day, solid blue sky and light breeze.  Did a few strides.

46F.  8 @ 7:54 AP.

Workout #2 of 2016 happens tomorrow.

64F, 85%.  14 @ 7:17 AP.  Aborted 4 x 1.5.  Ran a 9:28, 9:37, quit less than a tenth of a mile into the 3rd repeat, there was just no go left in the legs.  I was fatiguey and weather was kinda stuffy.  After pulling the plug I collected myself with 5-6 minutes of slogging and decided I should at least try and get in a couple MP miles while my body was under duress...then it wouldn't be a total waste.  I started but had to pull up again just before the end of the first mile with a pretty severe side cramp.  The joys of getting back in shape.  After another 9-10 minutes of slogging, trying to work it out, I ran the last mile in a painful ~6:45.

I'm strangely ok with it on the whole.  If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that running awesome workout times isn't what makes you faster; awesome workout times are best as "indicators."  Suffering is what makes you faster (and lets you run awesome workout times and races later).  Today was sufficiently painful to do some good.

AM:  52F.  6 @ 8:29 AP.  Big bright moon this morning.

PM:  71F.  4 @ 8:03 AP.  Finished up some stuff at work and got in a 4pm run.  I love 70 degree afternoons almost as much as I hate 70 degree mornings.

AM:  45F.  8 @ 6:55 AP.  Did 5 moderate miles, then 3 miles of fierce fartleking.  Distance-wise, something like 1/3 mile fast, 1/6 mile slow on average, but still kind of a mix.  Last quarter-mile in ~70.

PM: 4 TM miles in 31 minutes at home.

3 on the TM in ~21 minutes.  Yard work took too long and I shorted myself on time before our afternoon activities.