Saturday, May 27

JUST ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

The late May weather has been ideal for interval training. I arrived at the cinder track at about 7:00 p.m.  Most of the 800m oval was shaded and the temperature was in the high 60s. My plan was to get a good warm up and run some quick 400m intervals.  I was a bit tentative seeing as this was the first three consecutive days of. training  In quite a while. I took a long warm up of running and walking and stretching and straightaways. Feeling no leg issues, I began my first 400 interval at a very conservative pace of  2:O2.  I was pleasantly surprised. After a 3 minute walk and jog I managed a second interval at 1:55. And the third one was at 1:59. I was not feeling any aerobic stress only worrying about my legs that were starting to get heavy. But I decided to push the last one a little bit and ran a very credible 1:46. It took a while to recover but I pressed forward and ran a comfortable 800m to conclude the workout. The entire event was over three miles in about 42 minutes including warm up and cool down.

I really can’t judge the level of my fitness at this point, but I kind of like the way it’s going. I will be running  two tune-up races in mid June that should give me a good idea where I stand as I head to Pittsburgh in mid July for the Nationals.

Stats remain steady and legs are feeling good. Tomorrow, Sunday, will be a day off.