As long-time readers remember (not that there are any readers, long-time or otherwise - I'm just talking to myself), tonight's run is one of my favorites. Warm up for 1.5 miles, run 800m at a sprint, run easy for 15 minutes, run another 800m at a sprint, and then go easy for what's left of the 6-mile outing. By the end of the second interval you should feel like you're going to puke. I love this run, and I don't know why.
Since I don't have my GPS I have no idea of how fast (or slow) I sprinted. The first one felt tight, but it was definitely fast. I was looser on the second one, but I never felt like I was going to puke on either. I estimate my pace as somewhere in the 6:30-7:00 range, but that's just a wild guess. I felt better on the second, and the reason I came up with was that the planks and squats I do have firmed up my core compared to years past. Again, that's just a working theory. It could be that I was fooling myself and running 30 or 45 seconds slower, but I don't think so. I've run an 8-minute pace before and it wasn't as close to a sprint as I was going. For now I feel like the exercises I do have paid off. Guess we'll find out more in ten days.
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