Objective: VO2... ~30 min. warm up, 10 x (2 min. hard, 2 min. easy) plus an 11th rep of 3.5 min by accident (misunderstanding between me and the Garmin), cool down
5:15 AM: 36F, windy (15mph), cloudy, dry. I have an announcement. This was a difficult workout. Too difficult as a matter of fact. I've had it. I'm giving up running and will devote the rest of my life to the goal of eating at least one gallon of every flavor of ice cream produced on earth. ... April fools! Garmins are amazing. With all the hills and the wind, I wasn't looking at my pace during the reps but rather going by feel. But with the Garmin, I later saw that they were all pretty much the same: about .22 to .25 miles for each 2 minute segment. Given conditions and terrain, I think that's a pretty good pace for me, but it's the consistency that surprised me. So, bye-bye March. And what a fabulous month it was for me. I am so pleased with myself it's disgusting. I survived the time change with not too much suffering (albeit with quite a bit of whining), I raced two back to back weekends and did well on both races, and I ran about 225 miles in mostly crappy weather. Woohoo! Onward to April! I've got about 2.5 weeks of more hard fun work and then a 2 week taper for Eugene on May 3.
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