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Week 272
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Greetings, 50+ers! Writing this while watching the first part of the Men's Olympic Marathon---a lot of quality in that field! US mid/distance runners did a fairly solid job throughout the events, I thought. Centrowitz's win in the 1500 is definitely a highlight for us Americans.
My week was a bit more mundane. Temperatures have moderated a bit, but the humidity has remained sky high. Managed about 28 miles on 5 days. The start of the semester always causes issues, and some untimely heavy rain lead to some adjustments. Capped the week with a 5k race. Log reads as such:
Sun: 7.4 w/Form Drills
Mon: off (start of semester busyness)
Tues: 6.2 w/5x(800, 400 jog rec.) 310,310,307,304,302
Wed: 4.1 easy (7:46 pace)
Thur: off
Fri: 5.1 fairly easy (7:40 pace)
Sat: 4.2 w/5k@20:22
Happy with the track workout, but had to quit after 5 (210-215 recovery laps), a 6th one would have done me in. Easy runs most other days, and the evening 5k was the same one I ran last year. It was a little cooler this year, but much more humid as the race was run right after a downpour. It has a couple of hairpin turns that became a little more treacherous on slick walking trail, and we needed to be mindful of black walnuts on the course. Truthfully, my mindset was to run it solid, but I wasn't going to kill myself. Garmin showed the course to be accurate; ran very even splits for me: 628,636,632,46. Race was small, so 5th out of 103 doesn't mean much. I was pretty spent, but didn't go to the well.
OK. Won't add anything else this week; back to watching the Marathon. Go Galen, Meb, and Jared!
All the Best!