Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

62F, 91%.  7:46 AP.  Legs were a little tired but the run felt great, nice and cool outside.  One of those where it's just fun to be outside running.  I was surprised to be able to run at all, as bad as my ankle looked yesterday.  800 mg of "Vitamin I" before I went to bed last night, and again this morning, and I was cured.

AM:  70F, 90%.  6 @ 8:51 AP.  yyyep.

PM:  4 mile TM plod

AM:  52F!  6 @ 8:20 AP.  Cold front day!  Didn't even need my buttsweat towel!  I still need today to recover from this weekend's runs, but tomorrow will still be nice and I'll do my big 2 x 5k.  Kinda want it to go well - the 5k has me a bit rattled (the 2 miles where I wasn't lost).  Mile 2 was a 6:06, which is the pace I want for 13.1...not good.  I looked, and it was a bit more than 40' net uphill, but still...c'mon man!

PM:  4 mile TM plod

AM:  52F.  11 mi total.  Today was my big 2 x 5k @ HMP, 1 lap recovery between the 5k’s.  The goal was to just run 92/lap for the first 5k, then max effort, run my eyeballs out for the last 5k.  It went as planned – 19:08, 18:51.  Splits below are 1600s, plus the last 200.

19:08 – 6:08, 6:08, 6:07, 45

Lazy lap ~2:25

18:51 – 6:01, 6:05, 6:05, 40

The 5k’s together average right at 1:20 pace for a half, just under 6:07/mile.  If I were running Houston, with cold weather, I’d say I have an excellent shot at 1:19:xx.  Need to be a little more careful with this race though – should have some hills and most likely warmer weather than today.  Before Houston Half I ran this workout in 19:40, 19:28 (6:18 AP), then proceeded to run the race at a 6:19 AP.  So the good news is I'm way faster now (11 sec/mile).  The bad news is it'll be tough to convert that into a sub-80.  We shall see!

Just lost a month of entries..?  Hope that doesn't mean I just imagined running the last month.  I kinda remember running but if it's not on the blog, did it ever happen?

PM:  4 mile TM plod

AM:  58F.  6.5 @ 8:43 AP.

PM:  4 mile TM plod

AM:  59F.  8 @ 7:23 AP.  Couple miles in the 6:40s on the way back, no reason, just enjoying the cool weather.

PM:  25 min on the TM between meetings...cut it close but I made it...still sweating but on time

71F, 88%.  7:50 AP.  They harvested a big cotton field on my route between today and last weekend.  Whatever machinery they use must take the whole shrub, because all that was left were little sticks poking up from the ground.  Just thought everyone would want to know that.