Tough workout today! I haven't done 800s in quite a while, but today was the day. Did a one mile warm up and then did five 800 meter repeats with a 400 meter recovery after each one. My schedule called for repeats at 3:10 each and figured it was within my range so I decided to go for it. Here are the splits: 3:07, 3:09, 3:04, 3:13, 3:05. The second and fourth intervals were into the wind and were really tough, the other three were with the wind and were not as tough, but still pretty hard. I jogged each of the quarter mile recovery sections at about a 9:00/mile pace. The I cooled down with 1.25 miles to come up with an even 6 for the day. The body felt pretty good for the most part. My legs and lungs felt pretty worked by the end but that is a good thing I think.
Time: 46:25 7:44/mile
Did another 2.64 miles in the evening of speed walking practice which I will count as slow running because they are about 10 minute miles. Man that speed walking is brutal on the legs when you don't do it very often. Got a small blister on the inside of each of my heals as a result of walking, I don't think it will effect my running much. | 