Run warm up/down 20:00 [2] 2.4 mi (8:20 / mi) shoes: Saucony Progrid Ride 11/9/2009
Because I was to join Dasha at 7:30PM (only in an alternative universe would I be able to pull this off) for her visit dinner, I had to majorly alter my plans. Took the T to Harvard with my gym bag with a change of clothes, and then walked to the track.
Did 20 minutes of easy warm-up, the latter half with Terry and Vanessa.
At the end of all this, I would get in another 5 good minutes of bonus stretching: Eddies, groin things, ankle warmups.
Run warm up/down 4:00 0.5 mi (8:00 / mi) shoes: Saucony Progrid Ride 11/9/2009
Strides. SGB is a fast SOB. I am not sure I could keep up with him for any distance. Maybe 100 miles, not sure.
He seems to have such long strides (good for doing strides, right?) and just lopes along, while I feel like the road runner (albeit, a slower version.)
Run intervals 30:50 4.35 mi (7:05 / mi) shoes: Saucony Progrid Ride 11/9/2009
1600 x 2 @ 5K pace
600 x 4 @ 3K pace
400 rest after the 1600s, otherwise 200 rest.
529
322
531
321
156
144
155
148
155
148
155
Lap averages of:
82.25
82.75
77.33
76.67
76.67
76.67
Simple average of: 78.72
Weighed average of: 80.17
Very happy with this workout. Nice and solid. No fade. The speed is what it is, but even the 600s were sort of respectable. Getting there.
Note
Finished around 7:30 as expected, so I change quickly on the bleachers and trek back to Harvard Square. Red line to DT Xing, then wait, wait, wait... orange line to Haymarket. Probably get to the restaurant at 8:15, but luckily was not really conspicuously late (Dasha was finishing a hand-off call anyway.)