Felt refreshing, though

Thursday, 10/6--WC Country Club. 7.9 Borough run. Plan was to run first two mile steady state and then move into fartlek mode, 5 minutes pick-up, 1 min scale back. Ed, John Callaghan and I did this together. I hung off them for 5, sometimes 10 meters, but would pull near even at the end of the five minutes. I did particularly well on the hills. Since I wasn't part of the initial conversation about this plan, I thought we were fartlek-ing for the balance of the run. I didn't realize we were doing just 5. We stopped the pick-ups in the Shart Hills area, not too far from Suzanne's house. We had "room" to do one more, and I was hoping we did because I had gas left in the tank. Instead we called it quits at 44:55, having started at about 15:55. Had we kept going we would have picked it up again at 46:00 and reached High Street at 51:00. We then could have jogged the last quarter or so and finished up in about 53:00. Instead we finished in 55:45. Felt refreshing, though.

Wednesday, 10/5--4.4 easy run.
3:33(.5M)
7:11 (1.0M)
14:20 (2.0)
15:45 (loop 1)
19:10 (2.7)
22:45 (3.2)
24:05 (3.4 tennis courts)
29:25 (4.2)
30:45 (4.3/4.4)

Tuesday, 10/4--Henderson at 5:40A. Workout was 5x1000 with a 200m recovery. Just to think--I had just done this workout on the Rustin XC course the prior Saturday, except I gave myself a much more generous rest period. Runs were: 3:41, 3:40, 3:36, 3:32, 3:29. 3:34 avg. Justin had a really good workout, ahead of me by 3-5 seconds per 1000. I wasn't dead afterwards, so I wish I had given a bit more of myself. I'll have to compare this to the last time we were given this workout.

On Tuesday, 9/21/10. 5x1000 at 5K pace with a 200 meter jog in-between. I got there a tad early that day so that I could get a couple of extra minutes of stretching in since my hamstring is not 100%. My runs were: 3:36, 3:26, 3:31, 3:27, 3:16. We took turns leading these. I led the fourth, which was probably my most comfortable run. I went out a little hard (my first 200 was :35) and had to slow up. Even though my hamstring felt sore, this workout was a good one. For additional perspective, on 9/7/10 we did 5x1000 and ran 3:47, 3:38, 3:30, 3:28, 3:23. The average was 3:33, 6 seconds slower.