Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

50F, overcast.  Pretty good run today.  Did the first 10 easy, followed by 6 fast, but I didn't have a specific pace in mind - it ended up being a nice progressive tempo.  Probably a perfect marathon workout.

10 ez - 7:40 AP

6 fast - 6:28 AP  (6:38, 6:33, 6:32, 6:23, 6:21, 6:18).

AP for 16 miles - 7:13

Probably could've gotten a nice 10K PR today if there was a race.  It was surprising how good it felt in the 6:30s, really encouraging.  So, of course, I picked it up for the last 3 until it hurt a little more.  Didn't take much extra speed to get that special threshold-y feeling.

Gonna do some higher mileage this next week, all easy, with my last long MP run on Christmas.  This cycle has had a definite lack of workouts, maybe 1/week at best, but by making sure I'm fresh for them, they have all been pretty good.  Seems to be working so far.

56F, raining.  8:31/mile

37F, W 21-28 mph, w/c 26F.  Cold front arriving...weird direction for the wind though - it's usually only from the west briefly if it is switching from south to north, but it's a steady west wind today.

8:09/mile for the run, my legs are still tired from Sunday so I wasn't quite into my preferred GA pace range, but I needed the rest so I let the legs pick the pace.

36F, SSW 10 mph.  7:43 AP.  I herded a cow today who had gotten out.  She was on the dirt road and kept running away from me as I approached.  After about a half mile, she went down a driveway and hopped over a section of barbed wire fence that was sagging down a little.  Seeing a cow jump a fence was a first for me.  There was a bunch of similar-looking cows in that field, so I think I unwittingly but effectively herded her back into the right place.  Learned 2 things:

1. Cows can run a sub-4 800m.

2. Cows can hurdle

50F, 8:27 pace, now in Longview for a few days.

46F.  7:50 pace with some good hills in Longview.  Actually felt a little beat up afterward despite the easy-ish pace.

40F.  recovery pace w/ strides