Interval time tonight as part of the "spring training" program focusing on speed work. Decided to run early(er) rather than wait until almost dark, as it wasn't all THAT hot and humid today. Headed over to East Campus at about 6:20 at a slow trot; 1.5 miles to get there. Once there, stretched, jogged another 200 then began the intervals -- 6 X 400 at what I hoped would be about 6:00 pace. Turned out it was more like 6:12 pace on average, with my usual wide variation in pace from 5:56 to 6:30. Wore the HRM, which showed a max rate of 168. Not sure when that happened, but I bet it was during the last 400. Given that the best previous estimate of my HRmax was 173, I'd say I was bustin' it.
In retrospect, it probably would have been better to do this tomorrow and give my legs a chance to recover from yesterday's double, but I still haven't ruled out the BDB 5K Saturday night and wanted to be able to recover if I decide to tackle that. Probably not going to try that, though. Firecracker seems to have taken enough out of me. But given the fairly tired legs, I thought it was a good session. Then trotted home to complete the 6-mile run in just over an hour. | 