Specific endurance intervals again. This time 4 X 1 mile with about 400 meters jog in between (I stretched that out just a tad). Wasn't sure I could do this tonight, had just felt blah all day after a enourmously stressful weekend, and legs weren't too lively anyway. But decided to HTFU and see if I could get 'er done.
First interval was not too spry, 7:30 pace. Didn't stretch beforehand though. After the first one, stretched during the recovery jog, which ended up at 0.27. Second interval was 7:01, which was really faster than I wanted. Jogged 0.28, including a pitstop. Third interval 7:04, jogged 0.30, then last interval was 7:11, which is really about the pace I wanted. Then jogged home about 2.5. Other than the usual bad pacing, mission accomplished. Got the legs to do what I wanted when they didn't want to do it. Little disappointed in the HR, though. Ony got up to 160. I figured I'd get higher than that; that's only about 93% of HRmax. But then I only got up to 163 in the Iron Pig, too. | 