Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

65F, 85%.  Took advantage of the cold front today.  8 mile warmup, then hit the track for some CV work: 8 x 800, 200m active rec.  Average rep was 2:54.0 (2:57, 2:56, 2:58, 2:57, 2:55, 2:50, 2:52, 2:47).  Average recovery was ~65 sec.  Then a 2 mi cooldown to hit 15.

Pretty good!  Held back a lot in the first 4 reps; I've never run this workout this fast, and I've done it a lot.  I'm glad I decided not to sit around and get fat again this summer.  Should be a very fun season.

AM:  69F, 88%.  6.5 @ 8:32 AP.

PM:  4.5 on the TM

AM:  75F, 85%.  8 @ 8:08 AP.  Legs felt tired/cruddy until the last couple miles, which is also when there was finally a little daylight.  I'm already ready for DST (Daylight Stealing Time) to be over.  See what I did there?  I changed "savings" to "stealing," because it "steals" daylight from my morning runs.  That's the joke.  Daylight STEALING Time.  Get it?

PM:  5 TM miles, with 6 x 1 min @ 5k strides.  I think I'll bail on my HMGP workout tomorrow with the DP back up to august levels.  Will be replaced with a longer slog and I'll slot the HM workout in next week which is looking better/cooler, I guess.  This will still give me 3 goal-pace workouts before the half.

AM:  77F, 91%.  12 @ 7:54 AP.  When I stepped out of my font door it felt like a warm fart cloud outside.  So I'm glad I decided not to attempt a workout.  Instead, I drove to the trail, slogged around for 95 minutes, and when I came back I had a parking ticket on my windshield.  Whaaaa?  Apparently you can't park at any parks/city trailheads before sunrise.  I've parked there a hundred times, and I don't think I've ever arrived AFTER sunrise.  So, a $35 training run.  Fortunately there's a Walmart parking lot a quarter mile away.  If I had more spare time in my life, I'd devote it to getting that city ordinance revoked.  But since I don't, I'll just write a smart ass comment on the memo line of the check when I mail it in.

** Never mind, I'm fighting it.  I researched the ordinance.  Curfew hours are 11pm to 5am and my ticket was written @ 6:55.  The ordinance allows individual parks to set more restrictive operating hours, and this one does, but they may not change hours of curfew violations.  My ticket quotes "park curfew" hours violation.  I go to court in 2 weeks.

PM:  snuck in 30 min / 3.5 TM miles at the end of the day.

AM:  76F, 93%.  6 @ 8:38 AP.  Apologies to the family of gnats that I massacred by running through your cloud.  I tried to brush you all off together so you could decompose as a family.

PM:  4 TM miles with wussy strides.  I need to attempt some kind of workout in the soup tomorrow, no matter how pathetic.

AM:  75F, 91%.  Decided I might be able to handle some 600s, but my legs were tired, it was miserable outside and I couldn't.  I ran a 2:10, 2:15, then quit on the third rep, almost involuntarily.  Usually I weigh the pros and cons for awhile before pulling the plug but this was instantaneous...weird.

So this week was pitiful for workouts, but with a 16-miler on Sunday, it'll be my highest mileage week in about 18 months.  Next week our weather will move from "really crappy" for running to "kinda crappy," so I'm pretty excited; should be able to do some stamina work.  Here's the scale:

65 and humid -- meh

70 and humid -- kinda crappy

75 and humid -- really crappy

80 and humid -- just shoot me now and get it over with

I can't wait until it's "meh" outside...hopefully the week after next.

PM:  mini-workout on the TM.  Kinda complicated to detail, I was pushing buttons every 30 sec or so!  Short story -- 2 fast miles around 5k average, 5 mi total.

Stomach bug going around the house.  Now I feel it coming back again, like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind.