Mission Accomplished

This morning was the business end of the training week. I jogged 27 minutes slow slow around the house and over at Foothill College. It was on the cool side but the sun started to peak through and by game time it was warming up. I did some strides. Legs felt strong.

We did a shake down 200 in 38. I felt good.

I asked Dimitri to take me through the 400 in around 79-80 and then we could work the turn and try to hit 1:38-39 for 500.

1:38 would predict a 2:45-800.  Right now that was a bit of a wet dream. 1:39 sounded realistic. A second is lot in the world of mature men of the 800.

We went out and hit the first 200 in 39, floated the next 200 in 40 for a 79 and then we worked the turn to cross the 500 in 1:39.  It was 1:39:13 so close to 1:38. It was tough after the 400 and I lost form a bit on the turn but recovered as we came off the bend. I'll need to work on this!!!!

We walked around. My recovery was surprisingly quick.

We lined up with the idea of running a 37 or 38-200 but we blasted a 36:03 and I called it a day right there. Mission Accomplished!

We jogged 13 minutes and then drove over to Starbucks for coffee and at least in my case, a scone.