8.29 8 miles easy (59 minutes)
8.30 10 miles at a decent pace with last mile at 5:47 and did not feel hard in the slightest (64:14). Clearly, backing off for a few weeks has refreshed my legs.
8.31 1.75 miles warm up. Then 2 by 800's (400 recovery); 2 by 1200's (400 recovery); 4 by 200's (200 recovery). 2:24, 2:22; 3:51, 3:50; 30, 31, 31, 31. 1.75 miles cooldown.
I am very happy with this workout, Those 800 splits felt pretty under control and those are times
I would have struggled to hit 3 or 4 months ago. I am feeling strong.
8 miles total.
9.1 3 miles easy AM. 7 Miles Easy PM
10 miles total.
9.2 6 miles easy
9.3 Speed workout around my neighborhood. 1.5 mile warm up with strides. Then 3 by 1 mile with .2 mile jogging recovery (2 minutes). My goal was to go sub 5 in all three miles--I have only broken 5 once officially since 1992.
I destroyed this workout and shocked myself. 4:57, 4:53, 4:51. 1.6 mile cool down.
6.5 miles total.
Honestly--I am very surprised by this workout, but my legs feel totally fresh.
9.4 4 miles easy AM. 5 miles PM.
9 miles total.
57.5 miles total
Overall, This was a very solid week. decent mileage and 2 excellent workouts.
As a youth, I ran, yet I did not exist in a sense. 19 years passed. Today, I exist in one sense because I must run. Perhaps I run to escape the futility of my existence. Perhaps not. In either case, this blog, or whatever it is, will serve to chronicle my training as a runner, my development as a man, and ultimately my demise as a human, because all things pass, fade, retreat into the horizon--and while we run, as we run, the mirage that is the shimmering, glimmering future continues to assert itself just out of reach. And yet, as this picture up above connotes, it may still be beautiful. And so the question may be what is IT? What is it? What is IT?
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