I'm not sure I've entered my miles correctly for today and here is why. The workout was: warm-up + 4 X 10 minutes at LT w/ 2 min. jogs b/t + cool down. As I may have mentioned before I run in a hilly neighborhood. During the first two LT intervals, it was so hard, as LT always has been for me, but I could not go by my Garmin because of the hills. I would take a little, relatively flat stretch, check my pace, and try to maintain that level of exertion. Well, on the 3rd interval I decided to go ahead and look like a dork by running back and forth on the one truly flat stretch in my neighborhood (about .3 mi long). I wanted to see my pace on the Garmin and experience a more consistent level of effort. Within the first 100 yards I realized: I have been working too hard! So those first two intervals -- 10 minutes each --were closer to my VO2max pace! What a joy to know that LT pace is not as hard for me as I thought it was. I got a huge boost of confidence from this experience. From now on, my speed work is all going to take place on that one street, regardless of how stupid I feel running back and forth (when the whole neighborhood is so lovely for running). Oh, how I wish I had a track nearby. Second noteable event: I am running in new Nike Triax shoes today. Went shoe shopping over at the big city yesterday, at a real running store. The shoes felt really good, especially during the tempo run. Dilemma: I did a little math in my head this morning, and realized that, with about 7 weeks to go until my marathon, I could be putting as much as 300 miles on these before race day. I had been mistakenly thinking "7 weeks, not much time" without really working out how many miles that is. I want these shoes to be relatively fresh for the race. So it looks like I'll have to continue in my old shoes for most of my runs, or buy a 2nd pair. Ouch. Any advice most welcome! 15 minutes abs and weights
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