Weather - 80 degrees, sunny, slight humidity.
Decided to run a track session with 2nd Wind. Since I will be running a 12k trail race this Saturday I made sure to run an abbreviated workout. While I was warming up on the infield grass a pleasant looking female runner introduced herself. She had just moved to town from Miami, FL, and was a collegiate runner now in her early 30's who had run numerous marathons. She told me she was training for the New York marathon in November. The clipboard called for 5 x 1000m with 7 minutes between starts, for me that was about a 3 minute rest. After the 5 x 1000m we were going to run 800m hard on the straights, easy on the turns. I decided to run the 1000m hard, but once I became fatigued I was going to cut it short. I ended up doing 3 x 1000m, I started the 4th rep and stopped at 400m because I felt I was moving past my comfort level. I did run the 800m at the end of the session. My energy was low today, did not feel like running hard, so I was surprised that my 1000m times were where they should have been for a 19:15 5k runner : 3:37; 3:42; 3:47. I was getting progressively slower, which was due to my lack of energy. My leg strength was there, but the will was lacking. That is probably going to work in my favor for the race this Saturday because if I was feeling normal I would have pushed harder. #264
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