Ever since I decided last week to enter the Hogeye Half on 4/5, I had been debating whether to flip weeks in my training schedule, so that the MP run now set for this weekend would instead fall next weekend, and thus in essence be replaced by Hogeye. Well, the weatherman kinda made that decision for me. A big line of thunderstorms rolled through here this evening, followed an hour later by another one. There was not going to be my scheduled 15-miler on the river trail tonight. But there could be a VO2 max run on the treadmill, which was on the schedule for next Tuesday. Voila -- instant flipped weeks. So I get on the treadmill, warm up for three miles, and then crank it to 6:35 pace. My legs have one immediate reaction: "What in blue blazes are you doing to us?" This was my first real speedy speedwork since November, and I could tell it. But the legs adjusted pretty well. I really didn't have too much trouble holding pace, or finishing the scheduled 6 X 800 at that pace, and cooling down to finish the 9-miler in 76:29. So I have a VO2 max run under my belt now. And it will have some time to take effect before I go to Fayetteville next week. Will that help me get down around 1:35? On that mountain range of a course, who knows? (It makes Little Rock look like something out of Friday Night Lights, if you recall the West Texas terrain that depicts.) | 