May 10, Friday

“Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow.  Guaranteed”

   —  Amby Burfoot,  The Principles Of Running

Early evening on the cinders as the temperature hovered in the low 80’s, I set a goal to run 200m efforts at target race pace with double rest.   My very optimistic target race pace is 6:00 for 1600m.  If I can get close to that goal, I am sure that it will be enough to win two titles at the National Senior Games.  So, today’s goal was to reach :45 for 200m.  I did four x 200m in :49,  :47,  :46,  and :45.  This is on cinders, without spikes not approaching 100%.  With a 1-mile warm-up and a 1-mile cool down it was a 3-mile day in total.  Not bad!

Stats-

Weight =  149.2 lb. That is the lowest in 2 years!

Morning indexes are good.

Heart rate is steady.

Diet has been excellent.

Sleep equals 11 hours last night!

Stretching is fair. Body weights on hold.