After a weekend of longish miles, I was happy to be back indoors on the track. Although, based on how I was feeling most of Tuesday, I wasn’t certain of the result at The Armory. Call it the 12-hour funk, but something washed over me at work and even on the subway ride uptown to the track. I wouldn’t call it lethargy, but I felt kind of bleh. I thought about it most of the day and the best I could come up with is that I might be in the beginning stages of catching the latest illness floating around my household. We’ll see if I am right later in the week.
My little day-funk dissipated once I walked into the building. I really like The Armory. I always feel refreshed when I enter. Last night would be no different. On tap:
– 5x800m at 5k pace w/ 200m recovery
– 3x300m at 3k pace w/ 100m recovery
We have been building for the last 3-4 weeks with the goal to get after it during this session (as well as Thursday’s upcoming tempo run). I expected an aggressive pace off the jump and the crew did not disappoint. The results:
| Distance | Time | Pace | |
| Warm up | 1.5 Mi | 13:00 | 8:40 |
| 1st | 800 m | 3:21 | 6:42 |
| 2nd | 800 m | 3:13 | 6:26 |
| 3rd | 800 m | 3:07 | 6:14 |
| 4th | 800 m | 3:06 | 6:12 |
| 5th | 800 m | 3:08 | 6:16 |
| 6th | 300 m | 1:02 | 5:33 |
| 7th | 300 m | 0:59 | 5:17 |
| 8th | 300 m | 0:58 | 5:12 |
| Cool Down | 1.5 Mi | 13:00 | 8:40 |
But for another blow up with the last 800m interval, I am pretty happy with these nummies. I am pleased I held the pace (really we, since we run in single file and it’s follow the leader) and progressively got quicker with nearly each interval. Once I saw that I was reasonably close to a sub 1:00 300m, I really wanted it on the last 2 and kept stride with one of the Assassins. Most importantly, I kept it at about 85% effort level. It was terribly crowded on the track (almost got run over by our B Group) last night so to safely get out with a decent performance was the winning move.
In all, it was nice night cap. I can feel myself getting stronger week to week on the track. Now if I can just solve the tempos I might be getting somewhere!