6 PM
Running 23:58 [1] 4.5 km (5:20 / km)
shoes: 201210 Inov-8 Road X 255
Run to the Harvard track + 1 km (ish) around the track warming up with Alex, Giacomo, and Izzy. We discussed relay champs and how DVOA has made a Faustian bargian. My Forerunner 405 seems to be teetering on the edge of demise; it didn't bother to locate satellites this session, and it took effort to extract my lap splits. I dropped it on its bezel while passing through airport security on November 8, destroying over half of the screen. I will probably refurbish the 305, as that's cheaper.
I felt poorly prepared - two weeks of virtually no training, erratic sleep, and two ill-advised slices of pizza at 5:30 PM. Still, I decided to run it aggressively, and Giacomo was my rabbit.
Running race 10:42 [5] 3.0 km (3:34 / km)
shoes: 201210 Inov-8 Road X 255
Because of my Gimpy Garmin, I had no split data during the course of the time trial. I was 3m behind Giacomo at the 600, and about 7m back at 1k. I started to drift back and was really suffering on the last km. I was about 150m back when Giacomo finished. It turns out that I did a terrible job pacing myself. I had a bad stomachache when I finished. Oddly enough, I had the first movement of Brahms 4 in my head for the duration of the run.
Splits:
39, 82, 84 = 3:25
85, 2:10 = 3:35
44, 89, 89 = 3:42
Unsurprisingly, I was viciously aligatored. I shall attempt the TT again before the end of the year in a quest for better results, though this was only 11s off my PR. This fact is both good and bad.
Running 23:28 [1] 3.7 km (6:21 / km)
shoes: 201210 Inov-8 Road X 255
Run back to 7CC.