Planned workout: 8-10x 1/2 mile w/ 2:00 jog in 2:30 (maybe a bit faster the last 2)
Actual: 4w/u strides, 8 @ 2:35, 4c/d
This workout was very lackluster, just couldn't get moving and so I called it early instead of finishing a shitty workout feeling shitty. Naturally, I feel fine now. Now, I'm not much of a mystic but if I were, I would cite one or more of the following excuses for my performance to boost my street cred:
-Dr. J's out of town visiting Hotlanta and I've come to appreciate his masculine escort.
-As it turns out, today was the ascent of the Col de la Bonnette, the highest through road in Europe, so I should have done hill repeats or something
-Le Alpe D'Huez is actually tomorrow so I was out of tune with the "correct vibe" that I needed.
-I neglected to dawn my lucky hat and jockstrap this morning, opting for the sunny's instead
-"Maybe I shouldn't have drank so much Absynthe?"
-I had one of my somewhat lackluster ESB's last night, when my body was calling for at least one more, I failed to heed my body.
-The community along the Pickard Street 1/2 mile stretch, decided they were going to enact Beijing-like conditions, so to top off the 90 degree temps at 8:30am, there were several people mowing and weed-eating along with the street painting crew laying down some sort of noctious sealant along with the actual (lead based?) paint.
-Finally, maybe if I had more confidence in myself, I would have waited until tomorrow to do this workout or consolidated the past 2 mornings work to yield one hard effort instead if 2 mediums.
In any case, I'm not beating myself up, I know that this workout should have felt much easier, and the only negative is that I wasn't able to achieve the faster splits I wanted. I could have done 10 @ 2:35 but I would have ruffed my self up doing it and that still wouldn't have really achieved the workout, instead I called it and my legs aren't too beat. I'll come back and do something fast in a few days and I think there will be more inertia moving in the right direction by that time. I'm also vagually considering doing the Midnight Streak 5k(which starts at 11pm saturday) if I don't head to Colorado instead.
Today's tour was pretty awesome- thrills, chills, and spills- and it's just going to be better tomorrow. I also bartered some of my beer for a selection of the stuff being brewed up at Stevenson and so by 11am this morning, I had a beer down the hatch(I did my own half and half) and was watching the tour with most of the days work already done. Does it get much better? Vive le Tour, vive le zymurgy...
Actual: 4w/u strides, 8 @ 2:35, 4c/d
This workout was very lackluster, just couldn't get moving and so I called it early instead of finishing a shitty workout feeling shitty. Naturally, I feel fine now. Now, I'm not much of a mystic but if I were, I would cite one or more of the following excuses for my performance to boost my street cred:
-Dr. J's out of town visiting Hotlanta and I've come to appreciate his masculine escort.
-As it turns out, today was the ascent of the Col de la Bonnette, the highest through road in Europe, so I should have done hill repeats or something
-Le Alpe D'Huez is actually tomorrow so I was out of tune with the "correct vibe" that I needed.
-I neglected to dawn my lucky hat and jockstrap this morning, opting for the sunny's instead
-"Maybe I shouldn't have drank so much Absynthe?"
-I had one of my somewhat lackluster ESB's last night, when my body was calling for at least one more, I failed to heed my body.
-The community along the Pickard Street 1/2 mile stretch, decided they were going to enact Beijing-like conditions, so to top off the 90 degree temps at 8:30am, there were several people mowing and weed-eating along with the street painting crew laying down some sort of noctious sealant along with the actual (lead based?) paint.
-Finally, maybe if I had more confidence in myself, I would have waited until tomorrow to do this workout or consolidated the past 2 mornings work to yield one hard effort instead if 2 mediums.
In any case, I'm not beating myself up, I know that this workout should have felt much easier, and the only negative is that I wasn't able to achieve the faster splits I wanted. I could have done 10 @ 2:35 but I would have ruffed my self up doing it and that still wouldn't have really achieved the workout, instead I called it and my legs aren't too beat. I'll come back and do something fast in a few days and I think there will be more inertia moving in the right direction by that time. I'm also vagually considering doing the Midnight Streak 5k(which starts at 11pm saturday) if I don't head to Colorado instead.
Today's tour was pretty awesome- thrills, chills, and spills- and it's just going to be better tomorrow. I also bartered some of my beer for a selection of the stuff being brewed up at Stevenson and so by 11am this morning, I had a beer down the hatch(I did my own half and half) and was watching the tour with most of the days work already done. Does it get much better? Vive le Tour, vive le zymurgy...
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