Sixteen weeks till race day. Which race? The NYC Marathon. Here we go again. I simply can't believe I'm going to train for this again. I must be nuts. 26.2 miles is a long freakin way to run. And man, it is hot as hell out there. But this too shall pass. Before we know it the crisp, cool air will return and it will be bearable again.
Yesterday was the first training day of the program. It called for a track workout. I opted to do mine on the treadmill indoors due to the heat. The workout was 3 x 1600 at PR pace for a 5K with 400 rests in between. The first one was no problem. The second two were hard. Really hard. I'm blaming it on the heat. Since I had just done that pace for 3 consecutive 1600s on Saturday, I certainly should have been able to do them with rests in between. Could have been the heat. Or perhaps the miserable run on Sunday - 10 miles - again, in the heat. In any case, I didn't quite make those second two intervals. Logged 5 miles total for the morning.
And all the while, the morning TV was going on and on about the Zimmerman case. That should have been enough to make me run faster in and of itself. LOL.
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