Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

75F, 88%.  7:30 AP.  I almost got hit by a guy on a bike wearing a pirate eye patch who was swerving along the trail.  You can't make this stuff up.  Good 90-minute run followed by 90 minutes of yardwork.

AM:  75F, 85%.  6.5 @ 8:44 AP.  Might not have time for the PM 4-miler today, so I added a half mile to this run.  That oughta do the trick.

AM2:  fit it in, yesssss!  4 mi

AM:  73F, 74%.  7.5 @ 7:22 AP.  Really cool and dry today, felt great.  I was going to do 400s today, but my left butt muscles are sore, from bowling.  Yeah, you heard me.

PM:  0 miles @ 4:00 pace.

AM:  72F, 76%.  Continuation of the cool, dry air.  My butt is still sore, but I decided to give the 400s a go, as I'd missed the last couple go-rounds of this workout for various reasons, and this is a fun workout.  So 8 x 400 @ mile pace, 90 sec rest.  I knew my workout PR from May was 75.8 and probably raced it a bit today, usually not a good thing.  Today I averaged 75.1, but with a lot more effort.  Splits were 75.5, 73.9, 74.3, 75.6, 74.9, 76.6, 74.5, 75.1.  I bit off slightly more than I could chew in the 2nd and 3rd reps and had to make a heroic effort at the end to maintain 75s, but it worked out.  Usually on these, I can run the first 200 without hurting and then have to really focus the second 200.  By the 6th rep, I was hurting after 100m.  Good results though.

AM2:  seized the opportunity for a double this morning after striking out yesterday.  4 mi w/ a few pickups to 10k pace.

AM:  78F, 81%.  6.4 @ 9:13 AP.  I went exploring a little today, on the mountain bike trails along the greenway.  Some of it was perfect hard-packed dirt, and some of it was a lot more than I bargained for, but still a nice change from the same ol' same ol'.

PM:  4.6 on the TM with different strides.  Found an awesome hole-in-the-wall Mexican food place for lunch - $4.99 and it was awesome.  After living here a year, I've found the trick is to stick your head inside and make sure there are no white people inside.  It's a bonus if no one is speaking English.  Anyway, I bring this up because the charro beans were amazing, but quite the troublemakers once I hit the TM, and there was nothing I could do to protect the people next to me once I started speeding up for strides.  Sorry people!

heres my monthly chart - holding steady!

AM:  78F, 63%.  Super dry air!  9 mi total.  I went to the track for a CV workout today: 8 x 800, 200 active recovery.  Didn't have any expectations for pace, just tried to feel it out since conditions were weird for me (warm, a little breezy, and my sweat actually cooled me off for once).  I averaged 3:01.6 (3:03, 3:02, 3:04, 3:03, 3:03, 3:02, 3:01, 2:55).  Very solid pacing throughout.  Recoveries are supposed to only be 60 sec, though toward the end they were closer to 70.  I'll give myself a pass on that one though.  Definitely a workout success today.

PM:  30 min easy on the TM.