Beautiful evening in Austin, TX. Temp about 50 degrees tonight at McNeil HS track. We had a nice group of about 40 runners at the track. I did 2 careful warm-up miles, listening very carefully to the left calf muscle, as it has been tender last week. It felt real good during the warm-up.
We did drills and accellerations and then Donnie had us do the workout; 3 repeats of 1100 meters with a 100 meter recovery. Each 1100 meters was run faster than the one before. I ran a 7:20 pace for the first 1100 meters, then 6:55 pace for the 2nd 1100 meters, then 6:45 pace for the last 1100 meters. Through all of these I was listening very closely to the left calf muscle, and good news was that it felt fine all the way. Then Tam, Lemuel, and I did 1/2 mile cool down.
This was a very enjoyable evening after basically taking a week off during the holiday. |