Track Tuesday: Killed It

Somebody call the cops ... because I murdered this workout!  And, as I sit writing about it 12 hours later, I'm still amped up ... but it might just be my elevated heart rate.  We caught a break with the temperature, as it was only about 73 degrees for the run, but we still had 86% humidity, which made it impossible to breath and kept my times a little slower than I was targeting.  But I was able to get in two miles near 5K pace, then 12 x 400 meter repeats.  Here's how the workout went ...

Tuesday morning at Bernard Campbell Jr. High in Lee's Summit, MO ... the scoreboard should read ME...1, TRACK...Zero!!!

2 Miles slow warm up
     1 Mile ... 6:17/pace
     12 x 400 meter repeats with 90 seconds jogging recovery
     (1:20, 1:17, 1:20, 1:19, 1:22, 1:19, 1:20, 1:19, 1:19, 1:18, 1:20, 1:20) 5:16/mile avg pace
     1 Mile ... 6:08/pace
1 Mile cool down

I actually wanted to be 1:15 on the 400's, but I felt like the humidity really sapped my energy.  But I was proud of the way I fought through it, and when I wrapped up with the 6:08/mile, I still felt like I had pretty good energy.  Enough energy that in the evening, I ran a 5 mile recovery trail run ... but after that I was pretty spent.

So in spite of the humid conditions, I kicked that track's a--!  Go me!  And hopefully I can keep building on the training, it's going well so far this summer.
... Be Great Today!