Sims Lake Park ... Ran for an hour ... planned on some intervals ... but didn't really feel up to it ... mentally, physically, whatever. Decided to do a 40 minute warmup, so I got my hour in without suffering too much! lol After a quick water break, I ran a 6:00 mile, then cooled down for a couple miles to round out the hour. Threw in some short sprints, but nothing worth recording, just a little soccer running simulation. Overall, workout felt great ... after taking the first few steps ... which always seem to be the hardest.
PM - Rogers Bridge - Went out again because it is such an awesome day out! This is a street just down the road from where I live, which is closed to vehicuar traffic, and I recently discovered as a new training ground. It is short (0.8/1.6 rt), but scenic as it just goes between fields & dead ends at the river. It is great for intervals, including one short hill which is good for hill sprints, but then it is flat for the rest of the way. I wanted to measure out a 1/4 mile & 1/2 mile for intervals ... the 1/4 is perfectly flat & straight, and the half just goes a little uphill (15') at the end ... or I guess it could be downhill at the start! lol After measuring out these out & my legs feeling good, I decided to do an interval in each direction ... not all out ... but a hard sustained effort. Uphill 1/2: 5:43 pace. Downhill 1/2: 5:33 pace. With warm up & cool down, got in 4 miles total.
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