Night heat

800s


I wasn't looking forward to this one.    

20 min after sunset on the Dean Hayes track, the air was heavy, 86º and no breeze. I didn't even bother wearing my warmup pants.


I did not want to do that last one, but I gave myself a big recovery and talked myself into it.

400m warmup, stretches, few drills 

Saucony spikes on

4 x 800m - 2:38, 2:39, 2:43, 2:37

Wanting to do more quantity and maintain pace, I took more recovery - a 300m+ walk in between.   Way below a maximum effort, but I'm still heavy and out of shape.

Before the last one, I kept telling myself ... "how lucky I was to be out there and running.  How smooth and easy it was" (heh... yea, maybe for the first 2-300m).

I have a party scheduled for Sat night so I'll probably need to train Sat morning.

Inventory:  Seem to have a added a slight amount of body fat in my week+ off.  After workout: 142.4.
The ham is far from recovered.   Can't do leg swings comfortably yet beyond 90º.   Racing a 400m in just over 3 weeks is questionable at this point, but I'm planning on it.   I probably will race the 800m and hate it.   I'll definitely get smoked.

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Really enjoying the Olympic Diving trials.  Track and Field trials start tomorrow night at 8pm (central time) with the qualifying heats of the 400m and women's 100m on NBCSN.