Road run 48:00 [3] 6.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
running to work, and then from work over to the MIT track. The chatter from the CSU crew made it clear that running on the track at 7 with friends would be way nicer than running on the track by myself at 5:30 or so.
I was heading over to the track and noticed a fast looking dude run into a parking lot and I decided to follow him because fast looking dudes might now short cuts across the train tracks to the track. This is the Dirk Gently method of navigation and it worked, as I got to the track very directly.
Track 30:00 [3] 4.0 mi (7:30 / mi)
Clem was feeling some pre-injury kinds of pain and thought that running too fast would be a bad idea for him. So the semi-planned workout we were going to steal from the CSU running section was dropped in favor of mile repeats. I thought, as long as we're going to run some miles, I'll race the first as hard as I can to see if I can get that elusive 5:00 minute mark. Brendan offered to sacrifice his first mile, and run with me on the second half of my mile as a pace rabbit/cheerer. That was really helpful.
Went out too fast, but felt good and in control and came through the 1600 mark in 4:53, which is very nice. that beats my short term goal of 5:00 and my season goal of 4:55. New goal needs to be formed... perhaps 4:40 by the time I leave for WOC? that is a steep goal, 70 second quarters, but I have 2 months and clubmates to cheer me on so... why not.
the rest of the workout I did alongside Clem. 400 jog between each mile and 3 more miles at the Clem pace.
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