Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

71F, 88%.  7:30 AP.  Picked it up a little on the way back, without cracking into the 6's.  It's looking like Wednesday and Friday for my two workouts next week -- both mornings in the 50s!  Probably the last time until mid-October that we'll see temps that low, so gotta take advantage.

AM:  74F, 92%.  6 @ 8:48 AP.  Gonna try and hit the TMs at work later, if I can.

PM:  4.1 on the TM, included several strides at 5k pace to prep the legs for Wednesday's 5k workout.

57F, N 14 mph.  7:50 AP.  Some heavy thunderstorms came in last night and cooled everything off nicely.  The trail was kind of a muddy mess - I had a pretty sweet slide through the mud while it was still dark; somehow managed to stay on my feet.  On the way back it was lighter outside and I saw my skid mark - I'd say almost 3 feet long.  Would have been hilarious to see on instant replay.

AM:  51F, N 13 mph.  9.1 @ 7:05 AP.  Taking full advantage of the unseasonable cold snap, today was 12 x 0.25 mi @ 5k pace, 60 sec active recoveries.  I wanted to do it at the track, for accuracy and consistency, but I knew lane 1 would be full of puddles and I could minimize the wind on the trail, so I just set garmin to quarter-miles and did this on the usual route.

It went well, given it was my first interval work in awhile.  I only wanted to average 86, but ended up averaging 83.7 (5:35 pace).  Slowest was 85.6, fastest was 81.4.

Pretty easy - quarters at 5k pace isn't supposed to be hard, but I'll be increasing the duration of the reps as I go.  Sub-18 this year...I'm like totally serious this time.  No fake.

PM:  4 more on the TM in the afternoon at work.  I threw in 3 x .25 on/off @ MP.  If I don't have some strides or something to look forward to, I find it very hard to stay on the ENTIRE 4 miles.

AM:  48F (really).  6 @ 8:08 AP.  I wish my legs could handle back to back workouts, because it was awesome out there this morning.  Tomorrow should be ok though - long tempo...

57F, 6:54 AP.  Still great running weather for mid-May.  Yesterday broke the record low for San Antonio by 5 degrees so I guess it would be a little greedy of me to expect that too often.

Today was an 8 mile aerobic tempo.  I wanted to run it around MP, but I was feeling good and there really wasn't any reason to hold back with my next workout 4 days away.  So I did 5 easy followed by 8 @ 6:30 AP:  (6:45, 6:38, 6:36, 6:35, 6:32, 6:27, 6:21, 6:09).  Perfect progressive effort.  Not just aerobic by the end anymore, the last mile I was pretty close to max effort.  But I know I won't be able to throw down these paces this summer so took advantage while I still could.

There's probably no question now that I'm fully recovered from Boston.  Again, probably the easiest, fastest recovery I've had from a full marathon.  2 really good workouts this week - I'm hoping I can stay on a roll as it heats up...