Not bad, not bad at all

1/30/12--ran 4.4 miles--easy. 35:20.


1/29/12--chose not to compete at the Glen Mills meet. Instead, I went to the track for Sit 'n Kick reps. In its original form, the workout, as designed for a 2:00 800 meter high school runner, is as follows: 5x (400m @ 64 . . . rest 30-sec . . . 200m @ 28) with jog 1200m btw sets. It was too windy on the backstretch, so rather than frustrate and disappoint myself with lackluster 400 times, I choose to do 300s instead of 400s, followed by 200s. And instead of a 1200 meter jog I did 1000. There would be 70-75 seconds between the 300s and 200s and 7:30-8:00 between sets). Earlier this month I was able to do:
Set 1: 65/31 (rest-8:30)
Set 2: 65/30 (rest-8:40)
Set 3: 65/31 (rest-8:50)
Set 4: 64/32 (rest-9:00)
Set 5: 65/30

Today, I managed:
50/30 (67 pace)
47/30 (63 pace)
46/30 (62 pace)
46/30 (62 pace)
46/29 (62 pace)

Not bad, not bad at all.