Yasso's!! Yep, another day of the lung scorching 800s. The last few weeks of doing these has caused me to be pleasently surprised. The reason I say that is I have been feeling some pretty good fatigue lately and when it comes time to find the strength and speed to do these things, it's there. This morning when I started my two mile warm up I said to myself that I would take the Yasso's one at a time and see if I was able to continue after each one. Well after I had completed the first interval I felt so good that I knew I would have no problem completing the whole workout. Here are the splits: 3:17, 3:14, 3:16, 3:23, 3:07. I know splits 4 and 5 look a little out of whack so here's the story. I use my Garmin to do half mile intervals but I also have a half mile area measured out near my house which I use, so with or without the Garmin I know where the half mile starts and ends. The Garmin apparently went to breakfast during my fourth interval and I ended up running about 150-200 feet further than needed before it finally registered a half mile. I would estimate that the fourth interval was right around 3:15 as well. Anyway I was a bit upset about the garmin being off during that fourth interval that I grabbed the bear that had been hitching a ride on my back threw him to the ground put him in a choke hold and took off like I stole something, determined to make up for the garmin screw up, well, I guess I did. Cooled off at the end with a mile and called it a day. Another successful interval workout in the bank, hope it pays big dividends, with few penalties.
Meg had a cortisone shot in her heal yesterday afternoon so she did 20 on the bike and I had to do my intervals solo today. I am usually solo on interval day anyway because she runs her's at about a 3:30-3:40 pace but at least I see her as we pass each other going back and forth.
Time: 0:57:03 8:09/mile
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