Tried to do mile repeats tonight. Tried being the operative word. Plan was to do four, maybe 5 repeats at 10K pace. Of course, my 10K pace is purely a guess right now, and my guess was 7:20 or thereabouts. Warmed up for two miles, ran a mile. 7:23, not great, not terrible. Jogged for three minutes, tried again: 7:12. Maybe a touch fast, but more like it. Started jogging again. Then the brown bear arrived, and he wasn't happy. Took care of that, jogged some more, started repeat #3. Quads then forcefully reminded me that they hadn't yet recovered from the weekend. Got less than a quarter mile at 7:23 pace before they more or less shutdown. Took a long jog in between, tried again. Nope. About the same distance, 7:15 pace, no more. Jogged the last two miles to return home.
Probably should have waited until tomorrow to try this run, but I felt I needed some speed work before the half in Bentonville. I still do. Other thing I should have done, since I have done no speedwork in several months, is cut the intervals back from a mile to .8, or one lap of the park. That, I think, would have been more manageable, and I probably could have done at least four full reps, maybe five. Remember, dunderhead, you're 49 now, not 29.
Now two days of recovery and maybe try something else quick on Thursday. | 