Training Log Archive: PG

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Didn't wake up as early as planned, but out of the house in 15 minutes and down to the Smith track. Two miles warm-up, legs didn't feel very fresh. On the plus side, the track was just about empty.

The plan was 3 miles at a 7-minute pace, something I figured I could manage without too much stress. But, even warmed up, the legs still felt dead. Kept on pace, but it felt awkward -- some laps a second faster, some a second slower, never felt smooth. But I got through the first two and a half miles still not breathing hard, just fighting the legs, and then ran the last few laps a little faster, and ended up being quite pleased.

6:58, 7:00, 6:51, 48 (for 1600s and the final 200).

And one more mile, it too passed.

Was changing afterwards and a guy who had been walking on the track and looked vaguely familiar asked me who I was. And we had a very nice chat, he was Blaise Bisallion, a long-time member of Sugarloaf (my running club), most active in the club in the 1980s before I got active in it. But he knew who I was and I knew who he was, and we talked a bit about things long past. Quite an unexpected pleasure.