T-Minus 67 Days and Counting. . .

After last week's 5 x 1200 intervals, I was convinced that those were my least favorite intervals. I was wrong. That honor now goes to the 800, seven of which I ran last night. Had to alter the training plan a bit this week and, so, was hitting these on only about 52 hours of rest since the 15 miles on Saturday.

Temps and humidity picked up yesterday and that made for a bit of a challenge. Planned pace was 3:55 and I was pleased to knock them off in 3:57; 3:50; 3:53;3:56; 3:53; 3:54; and 3:51. Last two were tough, as the heart rate was up and the legs were feeling a little heavy.

Recovery was good. Ending pulse was 144 and it dropped to 112 within 60 seconds and 100 after two minutes. Been monitoring that more lately. Felt good the rest of the evening. We're now set for 8 miles at tempo pace (about 8:45 to 9) on Wednesday.