Took the last two days off -- one for exhaustion and bad weather, one because we went car shopping last night (a truly frustrating experience). So I figured I needed to get back out there tonight to wake the legs up, with the 5K only about 38 h ours away. Warmed up for three miles, then put the hammer down for the last mile and a half. Wound up at MP or slightly below, which felt a lot harder than that. Maybe the exhaustion isn't quite gone.
Not quite sure how to approach the 5K. My only speedwork has been progression runs, and none of that has approached 5K pace for very long. Don't know exactly what the course will be either. It occurs to me I might get an AG award by default. I think I'll just do what I usually do for 5Ks -- try to go out at 7:00 pace or thereabouts and hold it as long as I can, and hope they do what I think they will with the course and bring it downhill on Razorback Road to the finish. That will help me put on a finishing "kick". Having said that, a PR would be a fluke, or a miracle, given the state of my training. But then I did almost no speed work before I got the PR last September. I credit that to pure guts; I just refused to give in to the pain and fatigue. Saturday might be more of the same. | 