Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

48F.  7:24 AP.  Really enjoyed one of the last great, cool running days remaining before it gets hot.  The second half of this run was at a pretty good clip, but still felt really easy.  Only 4-5 months of heat, I guess I'm ready now....91 degrees tomorrow afternoon.

55F.  6 easy, no watch.

59F.  Easy run, but with 8 x 8 sec hill sprints after the first couple miles.  Did some drills prior to the sprints.  They dropped a bunch of rocks/pebbles/gravel on my good hill, but there is another one close by that worked great.  I'll have to find a good one in San Antonio next week...

68F.  6 easy.  I saw a live armadillo today, which is unusual -- the normal ratio of dead to alive armadillos I see is about 10:1.  But I now know why.  As I was running by him, he didn't scurry away like the rabbits and skunks do, he just froze and stared at me as I ran by.  I don't think that technique works on a pickup truck.

Anyway, I take the live sighting as a good omen that I'm going "home with the armadillos" soon.

60F, 99%.  Headed down to the track for vo2 day.  I did 3 x (6 x 20 sec) @ vvo2 on the grass, with a couple easy laps after each set.  Then picked it up for 800m @ 95%, which I did in 2:36 (79, 77).  I saved a little gas on the 800m effort but was still working pretty hard; probably could have gone another 200m at that pace but that's about it.  It always surprises me how weak I am on middle distance efforts, but I guess it shouldn't...I've never trained for anything like that in my life, just kind of went straight to the marathon.  Well, the next 6+ months will be all about training more to those paces.  Looking forward to shifting gears.

65F, 100%.  easy, sticky miles.