Four easy miles in the morning. Today was the coldest it's been so far, but it wasn't too bad once I got going.
For practice today we did a 5,000 meter fartlek and a 3200 meter fartlek. For the 5,000 we went 400 hard, 400 easy, 400 hard, 400 easy, 400 hard, 400 easy, 1200 hard, 800 easy, 600 hard. The hard pace was supposed to be 74 second 400 pace, and the "easy" was supposed to be 84 second 400 pace. I was right at the front of the group for most of the 5,000, but dropped off a little bit at the end. I finished up at 16:08, the fastest was Brandon at about 16:00. We had a ten minute rest, and we went into the 3200. For this, we went easy, hard, easy, hard(800), easy(400), hard(800). I stayed back a little bit on this one, and I moved up on the last easy 400. I pushed it really hard on the last hard 800, and I was about 2:19 on that. I finished up behind Trevor and Miles, and I almost caught Miles. My time was 10:03 or so. We measured it after, and it was a little bit short, maybe ten seconds or so. But it was still a good workout, and the top guys were only about ten seconds faster than me on their 3200. I warmed up 2.5 miles and cooled down 2.5 miles, so that makes ten for practice, and 14 for the day.
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