Puke-Worthy Run As much as I didn't really and truly want to get out there and do a speed workout today, I sucked it up and got it done. I would have been so happy with just an "easy" 6-mile run mind you. The sun was shining, blue skies, though back in the 80's and the humidity is back up there again as well. But, overall, not terrible weather for an easier steady-state run. Instead I had a 6-miler on tap that included 1 mile warm up, 3 x 1-mile at 7:53 with 1/2 mile jog recovery then cool down. Did I mention it was about 83 degrees out? And no shade, lots of glorious (hot as hell) sunshine. The run started off rocky in that my car died. I had prepared myself for the run darn it, so a dead battery was not going to throw me off. Perhaps being ticked off helped fuel the run just a bit too ;-) I started off with about a 9 min/mile pace for the first mile then kicked into gear for the intervals. It was all about focus, breathing, focus, getting out of the head, try...
Finding my happy place in the day-to-day.