E 10:00 [1] 0.5 mi (20:00 / mi)
shoes: Hoka Clifton
E warmup at Maplewood HS track . . . track was totally packed and became obvious was not going to be able to do my workout as planned 4x600m and 4x200m . . . because turned out as fate would have it, I had stumbled upon BRR speedwork night, duh.
R 50:00 [4] 2.4 km (20:50 / km)
(injured) shoes: Hoka Clifton
track was super-packed like about 75-100 runners, joggers. what the heck! began to wonder if Maplewood was some secret enclave of fitness fanatics. then saw the BRR Speedwork banner and became obvious this was BRR speedwork night, duh. so just gave up my plans and did their 12x200m workout. The divided the groups by mile goal pace for a 5K so I asked for the 6:30 group. Group 1 leader said they were doing about 5:00-5:30 pace and Group 2 was more like 6:30. so lined up with them. super organized group workout, each group set off in their own lane from inner 1 to outer 8 and started in waves by the leader at the 200m mark. Did the first 5 reps with Group 2 and recognized from pretty fast master 5K guys. Soon it became obvious they do their 200m reps much differently then me. most obviously they jog the rest period much much faster, like about 1:50, so I was getting more and more gassed on the recovery jog and not able to keep up with the actual 200m rep, which felt slow to me. so had to drop back to Group 3, which was doing about a 45-50 sec rep. They did the rep painfully slow so I was passing people then the jog way too fast so dropped back on the recovery. Crazy.
Then on Rep 10 the unthinkable happened, somehow tweaked my left soleus. didn't think it was too serious so finished the last two reps even faster, passing most of the field who were tiring rapidly. then had to hobble home on the bike and even hurt pushing the pedals in the lowest gear.
looking back, two strikes against me . . . unusual factors probably contributed to the injury: 1) evening workout after sitting all day and 2) short rest, this group jogged the 200m faster than I'm used to in about 1:50, I usually take 2:30-3R but they ran the repeat unusually slow. anyway, can't run on it now. Senior Games in serious doubt. Have it iced down now and plan to rest it Th and Fri.