20 intervals.
TWENTY INTERVALS.
Reading it makes me BOOMM (bored out of my mind).
But I did it and dangit I did it well!
I was supposed to hit between 44-47, 44 has been difficult on my previous weeks intervals for even 8 intervals, so I was nervous.
I don't like running around tracks, plus I think it is more beneficial in the long run to go run on the street because it is closer to what the actual marathon will be, (constant changing of elevation, turns etc), so it pushes me more. So I set off on my favorite 5.5 mile loop, after a mile warm up I began the intervals. What is fun about doing intervals on the street is you have to plan around stoplights, so sometimes I get very little rest between intervals because I want to knock out another one before that one light I know takes days to change. So intervals on the street could be seen as a form of a fartlek.
Started out well, hitting a lot of 44-45. Then all the sudden I got to #13 and my little legs in my favorite Inspire II Crops just took off! I was hitting 40-41-42 for the remaining 7 and it felt just blissful! I felt like a gazelle for reals, instead of feeling like I was dragging through mud like I have felt since starting this training!
Finally my legs clicked into place and are ready for the next several months of re-training and re-learning how to run!
Feeling like myself again, nothing better!
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